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The newspaper became the World-Telegram in 1931, following the sale of the New York World by the heirs of Joseph Pulitzer to Scripps Howard. [1] More than 2,000 employees of the morning, evening and Sunday editions of the World lost their jobs in the merger, although some star writers, including Heywood Broun and Westbrook Pegler , were kept on ...
Under the names World Feature Service and New York World Press Publishing the company also syndicated comic strips to other newspapers around the country beginning around 1905. With Scripps' acquisition of the World newspaper and its syndication assets in February 1931, the World 's most popular strips were brought over to Scripps' United ...
New-York Weekly Journal (New York City, est. 1733) [373] New York World (New York City) (1883–1931) [374] New York World Journal Tribune (New York City) (1966–1967) [375] New York World-Telegram (New York City) (1931–1966) [376] The North Star (1847–1851, abolitionist, Rochester) Open Air PM (New York City, 1990s) PM (New York City ...
The strike began at 2 a.m. on December 8, when workers from the New York local of the International Typographical Union, led by their president Bert Powers, walked out from the Daily News, New York Journal-American, The New York Times, and New York World-Telegram & Sun. In addition, the New York Daily Mirror, New York Herald Tribune, New York ...
It was published daily, except for Sunday. The final publication was on February 26, 1931. It was merged with the New York World and the New York Telegram and became the New York World-Telegram. [2] In 1899, The Evening World was the subject of a large-scale newsboy strike, immortalized by the Disney film and stage musical Newsies. [3]
New York World (1883–1931) [26] New York World Journal Tribune (1966–1967) [27] New York World-Telegram (1931–1966) [28] Open Air PM (1990s) Oram's New-York price-current, and marine register. w., June 10, 1797 – May 18, 1799. [2] Parker's New-York gazette, or, The Weekly post-boy. w., March 19, 1759 – April 29, 1762. [2] PM (1940 ...
Frederick Woltman (March 16, 1905 – March 6, 1970) was a 20th-century American newspaper journalist for the New York World-Telegram, known as "an anti-communist reporter in the 1940s and early 1950s, best known for criticism of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy in a series of articles called "The McCarthy Balance Sheet", which ran July 12–16, 1954.
The New York World Journal Tribune (WJT) was an evening daily newspaper published in New York City from September 1966 until May 1967. The World Journal Tribune represented an attempt to save the heritages of several historic New York City newspapers by merging the city's three mid-market papers (the Journal-American, the World-Telegram and Sun and the Herald Tribune) together into a ...