Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deal was with Frank Ernest Gannett, 60, owner of a chain of 19 ultra-respectable newspapers mostly in New York State. By its terms Hearst cleared out of Rochester, where he had been losing $125,000 a year and where he once gave away automobiles to lure circulation, leaving Gannett a virtual monopoly in that city with his evening Times-Union and morning and Sunday Democrat & Chronicle. Hearst's Rochester employes, out of jobs, were attempting at week's end to raise money to start a new paper...
...Increasing Mr. Hearst's sadness during his New York stay was the death by heart failure of his good friend Joseph A. Moore, 58, until 1934 proprietor of the New York Morning Telegraph, former general manager of Hearst magazines and onetime president of the New York American, in the final conferences on which his understanding and advice were much solicited. Even more keen last week was Mr. Hearst's sense of loss when heart failure also took away Morrill Goddard, 70, the last great editor of his youth, whom he bought away from Joseph Pulitzer at the same...
...each of 229 homes where the sun rarely penetrates in the slums of Greater New York City there came last week a penny postcard. Each card carried the message, "Arrived safely at Life Camp...
Life Camps take children only from the Family Service Welfare agencies of New York City. On arrival at camp, the child finds a minimum of regimentation. He joins a group of seven and takes up residence in a structure designed to stimulate his imagination and responsibility. It may be a covered wagon or an Indian tepee, a stone village or a treehouse. Each group, under a counselor, is virtually free to make its own rules, divide its duties and camp work, find its especial talents, fun, and paths of exploration...
...covered wagon idea is his, as well as the broad educational aims of the camps. He started life as a farm boy, went to Kansas State Teachers' College, served in the Navy during the World War. After graduate work at Columbia University, and research for the New York City Board of Education, he joined Life Camps armed with a complete plan of reorganization. Dr. Sharp, who describes himself as the father of a Girl Scout, considers his job only half begun when the summer is over. He follows the careers of the youngsters who have come...