Word: citizenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday Citizen was put out by Scripps-Howard's well-established evening Citizen. The new Sunday Journal was published by the 127-year-old conservative Ohio State Journal ("Columbus' 'Good Morning' Newspaper"). The Journal is owned by the rich, powerful, publicity-shunning Wolfe family, which also owns all the remaining newspapers in Columbus-the 1? evening Dispatch, the 10? Sunday Dispatch, the 5? Sunday Star.* Reigning head of this clan is paunchy, big-jowled Harry Preston Wolfe, 66, who is reported to have sworn he would run the Citizen out of town...
Little over a fortnight ago Harry Wolfe heard the Citizen was secretly planning a 5? Sunday paper to cut into his 10? Sunday Dispatch. Instead of dropping the price of the Dispatch, which takes in 140,000 dimes in Central Ohio, he boldly announced the 5? Sunday Journal, ordered his editors to get it on the street the same day as the Citizen. Syndicate salesmen and jobless Ohio newshawks had a field day as the two new papers got under...
First run for the Citizen was 121,000, for the Journal 35,000. This week the Citizen planned to print 100,000, while the Journal moved up to 45,000. Spokesmen for the Dispatch and Star claimed their circulations (141,000 and 115,000 respectively) had not been damaged. This meant that some 400,000 Sunday papers were being printed in a city of 310,000 people -probably a record for the U. S. Both the new papers planned to continue to deliver Sunday editions free "as long as necessary...
...Then the Citizen opened fire on a 55-year-old probate judge named Homer Bostwick, accused him of blackmailing a 24-year-old girl into returning such gifts as a diamond ring, an automobile. Judge Bostwick was a friend of Harry Wolfe, who defended him vigorously in the Dispatch...
...When the Citizen forced Judge Bostwick off the bench, Publisher Wolfe was so hopping mad he slashed the price of the Dispatch to 1?. It is still there, one of the few remaining penny papers in America. The Citizen stayed at 2?, has some 80,000 circulation (Dispatch: 168,000). Scripps officials believe their new Sunday paper will make money, insist the Wolfes' retaliation will be a boomerang. Said one Scripps spokesman: "They are only cutting their own throats...