Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Benjamin Hill & Co.: Samuel S. Fontaine, onetime cub reporter under the late great Col. Henry Watterson; for more than 25 years Financial Editor of the New York World...
Hornblower & Weeks: F. Dewey Everett and Edward V. Jaeger, market advice editor, of New York; W. David Owen, James J. Phelan Jr., Henry B. Dearbon of Chicago; bringing the firm's memberships...
Gimbel Bros. Inc.: Lee Adam Gimbel, 32, as Vice President; to become a trader on the New York Stock Exchange; at a cost, for his seat...
Germanic Fire Insurance Co.: James A. Beha, to be Chairman of the Board of the new company; resigning as Superintendent of Insurance of New York State...
...Father. "Newspapers, as such, hardly deserved the name until this impertinent Scotchman came along. . . .' Before he founded the New York Herald in 1835 as a penny daily, newspapers were essentially windy political and personal organs. James Gordon Bennett gave the public hot news: the first stock table, Wall Street stories (including swindles and names), police reports, scandals. He made a sensation of the murder of a famed courtesan. He pried into the doings of the top social set, which never accepted him. The Herald's stories rollicked with color. He treated religion as news?a fact which annoyed clergymen...