Word: journals
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Publisher Fawcett's simple plan: to harness the smoking-room story and make it work for him. Further testimony is the fact that Fawcett magazines (all monthly) now number twelve. Publisher Fawcett returned from the War to Minneapolis (where he had long been police reporter on the Journal) broke and jobless. He borrowed a typewriter and, half for amusement, half with a vague hope of profit, began dashing off "hot" jokes and verses for his Army friends. Popularity was immediate. "Captain Billy" had to mimeograph his "stuff" to meet the demand, giving the sheet the title which persists: Captain...
Emanuel H. Lavine (see cut, p. 4) was born in New York City, Dec. 27, 1886. Having studied medicine, he started work in Bellevue Hospital, but abandoned that career for reporting. His first newspaper job was with the New York Evening Journal (Hearst). Year later he changed to the American (Hearst). There he had a general assignment, roving from 14th St. to 96th St. He covered the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal (1912), the Black Tom explosion (1916), the Whittemore gang murders (19-26), numerous...
...fighting colonel of field artillery, nearly completed an attempt to kidnap the Kaiser from a castle in Holland as a Christmas gift to President Wilson. With Banker-Promoter Rogers Clark Caldwell, he bought the Memphis Commercial Appeal and Appeal (evening) for $3,600,000 in 1927, the Knoxville Journal in 1928 to add to his Nashville Tennesseans (morning and evening); also with Caldwell he nearly bought the Atlanta Constitution, and bid $12,000,000 for the Kansas City Star...
Last week a less glowing chapter in the Lea legend was in the making. Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. asked receiver-ships for the Tennessee Publishing Co. (Tennesseans) and Southern Publishers, Inc. (Journal, Appeals). A third action by the receiver for Liberty Bank & Trust Co. demanded return of $166,000 obtained by Colonel Lea, his son Vice President Luke Jr. and others "by fraud and connivance." Reason given for the receivership suits: Partners Lea & Caldwell were guilty of "conversion, perversion, waste and misuse" of newspaper funds, and mismanagement of the papers...
...face of the court actions, Colonel Lea again demonstrated himself a fast thinker. To spar for time he moved to transfer the suits from chancery to Federal court. Then he "permitted" friendly receiverships against the individual papers, Memphis Appeals and Knoxville Journal, pending settlement of the action against their holding company. The receivers included executives of the papers...