Newsmaker
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Newsmaker

Roy W. Howard, the Mastermind Behind the Scripps-Howard News Empire From the Gilded Age to the Atomic Age

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Newsmaker

Roy W. Howard, the Mastermind Behind the Scripps-Howard News Empire From the Gilded Age to the Atomic Age

About this book

This is the story of one of the most important American newspapermen of the twentieth century. Roy Howard rose to prominence at the height of newspapers' power and became a leader in the evolution of print news starting in 1908—when E. W. Scripps appointed him head of the fledgling United Press at age 25—through his tenure as chairman of the Scripps-Howard empire until 1952. As Howard expanded and modernized the business, he landed some of the most important scoops between World War I and the Korean War. Ebullient, likeable, and outgoing, he headed one of only two coast-to-coast news concerns—Hearst being the other. An advisor to presidents and prime ministers, Howard witnessed the most significant events of the time. A 1930 front-page New York Times article named him one of the 59 men who "rule" America, with John D. Rockefeller topping the list. Time magazine put him on the cover. The Saturday Evening Post lionized him. Even his enemies gave him plenty of coverage: The New Yorker excoriated him in a four-part series, although the author admitted that Howard's and Hearst's were the only American newspaper publishers whose photographs the average newspaper reader would recognize. With exclusive, first-time access to thousands of previously unpublished documents in the privately held Howard family archives, author Patricia Beard opens a rich mine of stories from one of the most volatile periods in history as revealed by the head of a newspaper empire at a time when the press both made and broke the news.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Author’s Note
  3. Finding Roy Howard
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I: 1883–1922
  6. Chapter 2: The United Press: “I do not believe in monopolies,” 1908
  7. Chapter 3: Roy and Peg: Paris and London, 1909
  8. Chapter 4: “People are more interesting than the things they are doing. Dramatize them!”
  9. Chapter 5: “No tradition of colorless news,” 1914
  10. Chapter 6: “A knock-out!”, 1912–1916
  11. Chapter 7: Friends and Colleagues
  12. Chapter 8: The Succession, Part I, 1917–1918
  13. Chapter 9: A Reversal of Fortunes: South America, 1918
  14. Chapter 10: The Worst Day: “The False Armistice,” November 7, 1918
  15. Chapter 11: The Succession, Part II, 1919–1921
  16. Part II: 1922–1941
  17. Chapter 13: Changing Times
  18. Chapter 14: A Circus in Denver: Roy Howard vs. a Rogue, 1920–1931
  19. Chapter 15: “I’ll Take Manhattan” The Telegram, 1927–1931
  20. Chapter 16: On Top of the World, 1931
  21. Chapter 17: The Columnists
  22. Chapter 18: “Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People”: The American Newspaper Guild 1933–1941
  23. Part III: 1928–1945
  24. Chapter 20: The Mayors: Jimmy Walker and Fiorello La Guardia
  25. Chapter 21: Our Man in Asia, 1933
  26. Chapter 22: Debriefing the President, 1933
  27. Chapter 23: Adolf Hitler: “Germany’s Latest All-Highest,” 1936
  28. Chapter 24: Josef Stalin, The Next “All-Highest,” 1936
  29. Chapter 25: FDR: “This dictatorship . . . is all bull-s-t.” 1936–1939
  30. Chapter 26: Political Hotspots of Europe, 1939
  31. Chapter 27: Expanding The Asian Connection
  32. Chapter 28: “Every single one of them, with one exception, has come to the nation’s capital to serve,” FDR, 1940–1945
  33. Chapter 29: The Pacific, 1945
  34. Part IV: 1946–1964
  35. Chapter 31: On the Move, 1950–1951
  36. Chapter 32: Not Quite Retired, 1952–1954
  37. Chapter 33: Still Not Retired, 1955–1959
  38. Chapter 34: A Long Goodbye, 1960–1963
  39. Chapter 35: The Final -30-, 1964
  40. Acknowledgments
  41. Notes and Sources
  42. About the Author