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Richard Grozier
Richard Grozier (1887–1946) was the owner, publisher and editor of ''The Boston Post'' from 1924 until his death. He inherited the paper from his father, Edwin Grozier. While he was acting publisher in 1920, ''The Boston Post'' received one of the first Pulitzer prizes for exposing Charles Ponzi as a fraud. Early life Grozier was born in Brooklyn to Edwin and Alice Grozier.(20 June 1946Richard Grozier, 59, Head of Boston Post ''The New York Times'' The family moved to Boston in 1891, soon after his father bought the ''Post.'' The younger Grozier graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1905, and from Harvard College in 1909. However, he was an indifferent student; he barely maintained a C at Exeter and was "separated" (flunked out) from Harvard three times. He immediately began working for his father's paper, eventually rising to assistant publisher and assistant editor. However, he was given few opportunities to prove himself until his father suffered a total physical br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locomobile Company Of America
The Locomobile Company of America was a pioneering American automobile manufacturer founded in 1899, and known for its dedication to precision before the assembly-line era. It was one of the earliest car manufacturers in the advent of the automobile age. For the first two years after its founding, the company was located in Watertown, Massachusetts. Production was transferred to Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1900, where it remained until the company's demise in 1929. The company manufactured affordable, small steam cars until 1903, when production switched entirely to internal combustion-powered luxury automobiles. Locomobile was taken over in 1922 by Durant Motors and eventually went out of business in 1929. All cars produced by the original company were always sold under the brand name Locomobile. History The Locomobile Company of America was founded in 1899, the name coined from "locomotive" and "automobile". John B. Walker, editor and publisher of ''Cosmopolitan'', boug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1887 Births
Events January * January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti- rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher. * January 20 ** The United States Senate allows the United States Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base. ** British emigrant ship '' Kapunda'' sinks after a collision off the coast of Brazil, killing 303 with only 16 survivors. * January 21 ** The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed in the United States. ** Brisbane receives a one-day rainfall of (a record for any Australian capital city). * January 24 – Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat the Italians. * January 28 ** In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are wide and thick. ** Construction work begins on the foundations of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. February * February 2 – The first Groundhog Day is observed in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. * February 4 – The Interstate Comme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard College Alumni
The list of Harvard University alumni includes notable graduates, professors, and administrators affiliated with Harvard University. For a list of notable non-graduates of Harvard, see the list of Harvard University non-graduate alumni. For a list of Harvard's presidents, see President of Harvard University. Eight Presidents of the United States have graduated from Harvard University: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Bush graduated from Harvard Business School, Hayes and Obama from Harvard Law School, and the others from Harvard College. Over 150 Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the university as alumni, researchers or faculty. Nobel laureates Pulitzer Prize winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillips Exeter Academy Alumni
Phillips may refer to: Businesses Energy * Chevron Phillips Chemical, American petrochemical firm jointly owned by Chevron Corporation and Phillips 66. * ConocoPhillips, American energy company * Phillips 66, American energy company * Phillips Petroleum Company, American oil company Service * Phillips (auctioneers), auction house * Phillips Distilling Company, Minnesota distillery * Phillips Foods, Inc. and Seafood Restaurants, seafood chain in the mid-Atlantic states * Phillips International Records, a record label founded by Sam Phillips Vehicle * Phillips (constructor), American constructor of racing cars * Phillips Cycles, British manufacturer of bicycles and mopeds People Surname * Philip Phillips (other) * Phillips (surname) Given name * Phillips Barry (1880–1937), American academic * Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), American clergyman and author * Phillips Callbeck (1744–1790), merchant and political figure in St. John's Island, Canada * P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Newspaper Publishers (people)
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulitzer Prize For Public Service
The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service is one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. It recognizes a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper or news site through the use of its journalistic resources, which may include editorials, cartoons, photographs, graphics, video and other online material, and may be presented in print or online or both. The Public Service prize was one of the original Pulitzers, established in 1917, but no award was given that year."1917 Winners" The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-12-26. It is the only prize in the program that awards a gold medal and is the most prestigious one for a newspaper to win. As with other Pulitzer Prizes, a committee of jurors narrows the field to three nominees, from which the Pulitzer Board generally picks a winner and finalists. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1921 Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes for 1921: Journalism awards *Public Service: **''The Boston Post'', for its exposure of the operations of Charles Ponzi by a series of articles which finally led to his arrest. * Reporting: ** Louis Seibold of ''New York World'', for an interview with Woodrow Wilson. * Editorial Writing: **No award given. Jurors recommended the prize be given to William Peter Hamilton of ''The Wall Street Journal'' for two articles on "Our Envied Scrap Heap" and "Soviets and Feudalism", but the Advisory Board declined to make an award. Letters and Drama Awards *Novel: **''The Age of Innocence'' by Edith Wharton (Appleton) *Drama: **'' Miss Lulu Bett'' by Zona Gale (Appleton) *History: **''The Victory at Sea'' by William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick (Doubleday) * Biography or Autobiography: **'' The Americanization of Edward Bok'' by Edward Bok (Scriber) References External linksPulitzer Prizes for 1921 {{Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prizes by year Pulitz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cities by population, ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital, Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census geographic units of Canada#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William McMasters
William Henry McMasters (June 9, 1874 – February 28, 1968) was an American journalist and publicist who exposed Charles Ponzi as a fraudster. Early life McMasters was born on June 9, 1874, in Franklin, Massachusetts. His parents, William and Jane McMasters immigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1868. He attended the Dean Academy and Boston University School of Law. In 1898 he volunteered for the United States Army Signal Corps and served in Cuba during the Spanish–American War. McMasters married Lillian Goulston and they had one daughter. Journalism and campaign work In 1902, McMasters became a reporter for the ''Providence Telegram''. He later worked for ''The Boston Post'', ''Boston Herald'', and ''Boston American''. McMaster left journalism to become a freelance writer and publicist. He worked for the mayoral campaigns of John F. Fitzgerald and James Michael Curley and Calvin Coolidge's 1918 gubernatorial campaign. Ponzi On July 23, 1920, Charles Ponzi hired McM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarence Barron
Clarence Walker Barron (July 2, 1855 – October 2, 1928) was an American financial editor and publisher who founded the Dow Jones financial journal, ''Barron's National Financial Weekly'', later renamed ''Barron's Magazine''. He was one of the most influential figures in the history of Dow Jones. As a career newsman described as a "short, rotund powerhouse", he died holding the posts of president of Dow Jones and '' de facto'' manager of ''The Wall Street Journal''. He is considered the founder of modern financial journalism. Early life and education Barron was born in Boston and graduated from Boston English High School in 1873. Career Barron began his journalism career as a reporter for the ''Boston Daily News'' from 1875 to 1878 and the '' Boston Evening Transcript'' from 1878 to 1887. At the ''Transcript'', Barron gradually focused on financial news. He founded the Boston News Bureau in 1887 and the Philadelphia News Bureau in 1897, supplying financial news to brokers. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boston Post
''The Boston Post'' was a daily newspaper in New England for over a hundred years before its final shutdown in 1956. The ''Post'' was founded in November 1831 by two prominent Boston businessmen, Charles G. Greene and William Beals. Edwin Grozier bought the paper in 1891. Within two decades, he had built it into easily the largest paper in Boston and New England. Grozier suffered a total physical breakdown in 1920, and turned over day-to-day control of the ''Post'' to his son, Richard. Upon Edwin's death in 1924, Richard inherited the paper. Under the younger Grozier, ''The Boston Post'' grew into one of the largest newspapers in the country. At its height in the 1930s, it had a circulation of well over a million readers. At the same time, Richard Grozier suffered an emotional breakdown from the death of his wife in childbirth from which he never recovered. Throughout the 1940s, facing increasing competition from the Hearst-run papers in Boston and New York and from rad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
