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Joseph Pulitzer (/ ˈ p ʊ l ɪ t s ər / PUUL-it-sər; [2] [a] born Pulitzer József, Hungarian: [ˈpulit͡sɛr ˈjoːʒɛf]; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World.
Joseph Stella, artist; Josef Stránský, Czech conductor, composer, and art collector; Ida Straus; Isidor Straus – owner of Macy's Department Store, Democratic member of the 53rd Congress of the United States, victim of the sinking of the RMS Titanic; William Lafayette Strong, Mayor of New York City
The Joseph Pulitzer House is a mansion at 7-11 East 73rd Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was designed by McKim, Mead & White and constructed for the family of Joseph Pulitzer , who lived there from 1904 to his death in 1911.
Joseph Pulitzer offered a reward of $8,000 for information about "Doc Rockefeller," who was known to be alive and living under a false name, but whose whereabouts were a family secret. Despite slender clues picked up from interviews with family members and an 18-month search, the journalists failed to track him down before he died.
Jenny Steiner, née Politzer or Pulitzer, was born in Budapest, the daughter of Siegmund Pulitzer and his wife Charlotte (1833-1920), [1] into a wealthy Jewish family of factory owners. Her sister was the Klimt supporter and confidante Serena (Sidonie) , (married name Lederer); her great-uncle was Joseph Pulitzer , the American publisher and ...
Thomas Hastings's 1913 plaza plan, with the Sherman Monument in the northern (upper) half, and the Pulitzer Fountain in the southern (lower) half. The newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911 and bequeathed $50,000 for the creation of a memorial fountain, [74] [109] though this bequest was reduced due to a state tax levied upon it. [110]
A century of remarkable journalism wins 17 Pulitzer Prizes for the Des Moines Register. Here are the stories behind the prizes.
Designed in 1913 by Karl Bitter, the statue of Pomona atop the fountain represents abundance. In the background is the Plaza Hotel. Fountain map in 1916. In December 1912, the executors of the estate of Joseph Pulitzer announced that New York City had approved the fountain's proposed location, in the plaza between 58th Street and 60th Street, just west of Fifth Avenue, the same plaza where the ...