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...oldsters of Manhattan have been sighing. All their old newspaper friends are disappearing. The mania of Frank Munsey for consolidation! Either by buying or selling he disestablished three newspapers, The Globe, The Mail, The Herald, within a twelvemonth. What was Manhattan coming...
...Frank Munsey, buyer and seller of newspapers, gave $100,000 to the building fund of the nave of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, seat of the Bishop of New York who is now Dr. Manning. A potent committee under Franklin D. Roosevelt and Elihu Root seeks further funds to total...
...Herald, founded by James Gordon Bennett in 1835, and owned by Frank Munsey since 1920, won its name by giving to journalism the first complete "news service" in the modern sense. Under Mr. Munsey it gained a virile editorial policy and enormously increased its influence...
...consolidation under Mr. Reid was really brought about by his refusal to sell his own paper. He and Mr. Munsey each wanted to buy the other's paper. But Mr. Reid refused, absolutely, to sell, because the Tribune was his father's paper and he was determined to keep it as a family tradition. So Mr. Munsey yielded...
...Munsey has only two newspapers of the 17 which he has possessed at one time or another : The Sun (Manhattan, evening) and The New York Telegram and Evening Mail. And the Great Consolidator commented...