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...greatest example of multiple newspaper ownership in the country is the Scripps-Howard group, consisting of 26 dailies. Robert P. Scripps and Roy W. Howard own and control this group. Most of their papers were established, not purchased, by them. Their circulation is 1,270,843 daily, and of all their papers 'only one publishes a Sunday edition-the Pittsburgh Press, acquired last year...
...Maxim, now in his 71st year, who invented Maximite, Stabillite, Motorite, the U. S. variety of smokeless powder and many other explosive marvels, turned his inventive genius upon the 18th Amendment, and arrived at the conclusion that Prohibition Commissioner Roy Asa Haynes should bring suit against hotels and restaurants that sell coffee and tea. Said he: "I have consulted some of the most eminent legal authorities in the country and I speak with their authority when I tell you that if all manner of alcoholic liquors were served at this dinner the provisions of the 18th Amendment would...
...first National Convention of the season bloomed at Omaha. Candidates for President of the U. S. and for Vice President were nominated. There were 27 delegates present, who constituted themselves "the People's Progressive Party." The Chairman of the Convention, Roy M. Harrop of Omaha, announced that he had letters from 463 people who wanted to come but were not able to pay their railroad fare. In view of the number present, Mr. Harrop announced that every delegate would be allowed to speak as long as he liked on any subject...
...said I claimed it to be a publicity stunt, admitted to have been caught off guard." Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim, (See Page 5): "At the Madison Square Garden Poultry Show in Manhattan, there was keen rivalry among exhibi-tors of Pekin ducks. I divided honors with Mrs. Payne Whitney and Roy E. Pardee, who is known as the Pekin Duck King...
...student in the Harvard Law School, Roy Lynde Fernald of Winterport, Maine, is the first man to announce candidacy for the Maine Legislature in the 1924 elections...