Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beginning as a Chicago newsboy, he worked into the circulation department of the Hearstpapers, became circulation manager of the old Examiner in 1904. The strong-arm tactics used in Chicago's circulation wars gave Moe Annenberg and his older brother Max (now circulation director of the New York Daily News) a reputation that has dogged them throughout their careers. Moe went from Chicago to Milwaukee, from Milwaukee to New York, where, from 1919 to 1926, he was circulation manager of all Hearst publications. While working for Hearst he began picking up racing papers for himself; when he quit Hearst...
...guns. Oliver Davis ("Three Dagger") Keep, who had been promotion manager of The Condé Nast Publications Inc., bought control and, later joined by a rich college (Williams) friend named Archbold Van Beuren, began promoting Cue all over the Metropolitan area. Now a 58-page "Weekly Magazine of New York Life," jamful of information about everything from radio programs to de luxe cruises, Cue this week became a full-size (7 ⅞ x 11 ¼ in.) magazine and published its first national edition. The national edition went out to some 9,000 out-of-town subscribers who had been taking...
...many sudden changes of management and control were apparently too much for the old auction house. Last fortnight creditors who had consigned its goods for sale demanded their money. Last week New York City's Commissioner of Licenses Paul Moss suspended its license. Meanwhile, the Parke-Bernet Galleries stepped in, leased the building on Madison Avenue from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., its owner, prepared to carry on the old building under their new name...
...York City's little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia jammed his hat on his stubby stubborn head, and flew west. At Chicago last week he descended to do a little troubleshooting. At lunch in the Hotel Sherman he sat down with 700 advertising men. At his left he had Mayor Kelly, who had a World's Fair at home five years ago; at his right he had Charles G. Dawes, whose brother Rufus successfully financed Chicago's Fair. Little Fiorello's job was to convince them all that New York's is a lot better. Said...
...several respects New York's Fair outstrips Chicago's: its World of Tomorrow cost more than thrice Chicago's $47,000,000 Century of Progress, is twice its size, and at the end of its first year will probably have a deficit three times as big as Chicago's $5,000,000. (The Century of Progress closed its second year in the black.) Fond of booming, expansive ciphers, honey-tongued Grover Whalen prophesied for his Tomorrow 60,000,000 customers, when he unveiled his big show last April 30. Today the books of the Fair give...