Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands of men who knew how to save money as well as spend it- and "Smiling Joe" Connolly was one of them. The Hearstian era of prodigality had definitely ended last year when the aging chief consented to the dissolution of his beloved but money-losing New York American (TIME, July 5, 1937). With the New York situation thus temporarily solved, General Manager Connolly's first concern became Chicago, where the profitless morning Herald & Examiner was stumped by the sprawling domination of Robert Rutherford McCormick's Tribune, and the evening American was suffering from the sprightly competition...
...give the tabloid zip, Connolly turned it over to onetime Herex Managing Editor Walter Howey, immortalized as the prototype of all man-eating managing editors by Playwrights Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur in The Front Page. Lately on Hearst's executive staff, Howey had supervised the tabloid New York Mirror and the Boston Record. There are now 54 tabloids, of varying degrees of importance, on sale daily...
...brighten the evening American, General Manager Connolly announced he would use two brand-new Hearstlings: Inez Callaway Robb, weaned away from Joseph Medill Patterson's New York Daily News where she wrote a lively society column under the Newsname "Nancy Randolph," and Francis J. Powers, former sportswriter for the New York...
...light 1,500 tiny bulbs sprinkled on her dress, wore a red neon headgear which flashed intermittent lightning. As "The Empire State Building Plans'' she wore T-squares and French scrolls around her neck, pencils and empty India ink bottles on her hat. For the New York World's Fair she planned a beach hat featuring a Trylon and a Perisphere topped by a lobster...
...commentators are agreed-that the rise and fall of commercial loans by U. S. banks is usually a good measure of business activity. Thus, all through Depression II the volume of credit issued to business has fallen (with occasional minor reversals) some $20,000,000 a week in New York City, another $20,000,000 in the rest of the U. S. Last week, however, Federal Reserve summaries for reporting banks in 101 cities showed the trend had been reversed for three consecutive weeks of August: loans rose $30,000,000 in New York City, $11,000,000 outside. Though...