Pulitzer_ A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - James McGrath Morris [296]
What they found: In Albert’s unpublished memoir, he makes mention of having been the first to introduce ears. But as the Journal from those months no longer exists, the claim cannot be confirmed.
But if the new World: NYT, 11/5/1911, SM3.
During the following days: Walt McDougall, “Old Days on the World,” American Mercury (January 1925) 22.
As the staff: NYW, 5/10/1908.
Finished with the city room: NYS, reprinted in GlDe, 5/27/1883, 10; GJ, 303.
The paper abandoned: NYW, 5/31/1883, 1. The New York Times opted for DEAD ON THE NEW BRIDGE.
If the headline: JP memo, 1899 or 1900, quoted in GJ, 48, footnote.
Pulitzer had an uncanny: NYW, 5/29/1883, 1.
The World’s stories: NYW, 1/25/1884, 4, quoted in GJ, 34.
As was inaccuracy: AI, 111.
In his first weeks: NYW, 5/29/1883, 4 and 5/30/1883, 8.
The Pulitzers moved: ChTr, 7/31/1883, 1.
Even though work: Among the guests were General Grant and Schurz: NYT, 6/8/1883, 5; WAS, 89–91, Hirsh, William C. Whitney, 227; Rocky Mountain News, 11/8/1883, 4. The club permitted entry to the Republican Roscoe Conkling.
Pulitzer even found time: The telegraphs and invitations for the boat ride may be found in JP-CU, Box 5.
Pulitzer may have taunted: NYW, 9/30/1883, 4.
In August, Pulitzer: ChTr, 8/6/1883, 2.
By the end of August: Circulation was 27,620 on August 12, 1883, according to the notarized statements that Pulitzer began publishing in the paper; see GJ, 332. Also NYW, 8/11/1883, 4.
On August 28: NYT, 8/29/1883, 2 and 8/30/1883, 8. Pulitzer knew several of his traveling companions, such as August Belmont Jr., the son of the eminent banker, and the journalists Herbert Bridgman and Noah Brooks.
Pulitzer was surprised: NYW, 9/9/1883, 4 and 9/10/1883, 8.
During Pulitzer’s absence: Davenport Gazette, 09/08/1883, 2; BrEa, 9/30/1883, 2.
The rumors were: NYW, 9/26/1883, 4.
As the World’s circulation: NYW, 5/17/1883.
When he returned: NYT, 9/25/1883, 2; Oshkosh Northwestern, 08/26/1883, 3; Bismarck Daily Tribune, 9/28/83, 10.
Weeks later, as: NYT, 11/1/1883, 5.
In November, Pulitzer: A review of internal memos from the period confirms that the published circulation figures were quite accurate.
CHAPTER 17: KINGMAKER
Despite his triumphant: J. W. Buell to JP, 12/19/1883, WP-CU; NYT, 5/10/1884, 5.
Characteristically, Pulitzer made: Cunard telegram, 5/19/1884; William D. Curtis to JP, 6/18/1884, JP-CU.
As the convention broke up: NYW, 6/7/1884, quoted in Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, 267.
A Republican who: NYW, 7/24/1884, 4 and 8/26/84, 4.
Although Blaine had: Pulitzer was pestered by attorneys representing disgruntled persons threatening to sue. One such case involved a college professor who felt that an article about students’ wild antics had injured him and the college. See Scott to JP, 4/2 and 4/3/1884, WP-CU; WAS, 103. Pulitzer also regularly praised Conkling in his editorials. See, for instance, NYW, 9/5/1883, 4. That Conkling was the author of the anonymous pieces for the World was common knowledge, reported in the Tribune and other newspapers.
Pulitzer could hardly: PD, 11/8/1882, 4; NYW, 10/14/1884.
With each passing day: In March, the circulation had been 40,000: ThJo, 3/29/1884, 7; 4/5/1884, 5; and 5/31/1884, 3.
By midsummer: ThJo, 6/14/1884, 2.
Nothing his competitors: ThJo, 6/7/1884, 1.
In July, sitting: Quoted in JWB, 85. Pulitzer not only attended the Chicago convention but, as he had done for the Post-Dispatch, filed signed articles. (See NYW, 7/9/1884–7/12/1884.) Years later, Pulitzer unrealistically boasted, “If it had not been for the action of the World at this stage, he could not have been nominated.” (JP to James Creelman, JC, folder 74.)
On July 29: ChTri, 7/30/1884, 1; NYT, 7/30/1884, 1.
Cleveland also carried: “There is a story in circulation concerning a record made by him ‘in youth’s hot blood’—a story which The World will never under any circumstances print—which may find its way into the channels of public gossip, if this lowest type of campaign tactics is to be adopted by the Blaine organization”: NYW, 7/25/1884, 4.
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