Pulitzer_ A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - James McGrath Morris [308]
When one of the governesses: Ledlie to JP, 6/29/1900, JP-CU; KP to JP, no date, probably 6/29/1900, June Folder, JP-CU, Box 11; KP to JP, 7/18/1900 and 7/19/1900; JP to KP, 7/21/1900; KP to JP, 7/22/1900, KP to JP, 7/25/1900, JP-CU; JAS to JP, 8/1/1900, JP-CU.
It was not a good time: JP to KP, 10/22/1899, JP-CU.
After Davidson’s death: J. Clark Murray to JP, 9/16/1900, and W. R. Warren to JP, 9/21/1900, JP-CU.
In the fall of 1900: JC to JP, no date, in 1900 folder, WP-CU, Box 14.
Backing Bryan put: Kazin, A Godly Hero, 105.
In the early morning: ChTr, 10/10/1900, 1.
“In the few moments”: GHW to KP, 10/15/1900, JP-CU.
The new century: Details of the war between the large retailers and the World may be found in WP-CU, Box 18.
An upturn in: The modern securities laws were years away. What Pulitzer was doing was not illegal. For instance, his banker obtained confidential information about his bank’s forthcoming dividends and purchased shares for Pulitzer to benefit from the higher price the stock would fetch. (DC to JP, 10/14/1904, JP-CU.)
Pulitzer invested in: In 1902 and 1904, Pulitzer asked Clarke to sell railroad and steel stocks because he was uncomfortable owning them. In one instance, Clarke replied, “It would seem a pity to make the sacrifice simply because your sense of what is right and just is not complied with” (DC to JP, 9/2/1902, JP-CU); JP to DC, undated, JP-CU, Box 8.
All the income: DuVivier and Company to KP, 4/5/1901; Gebrüder Simon to JP, 12/5/1900; GWH to KP, 2/21/1901, JP-CU.
The new mansion: William Mead to Hughmon Hawley, 12/14/1900, MMW.
Just when matters: Stanford White to JP, 2/11/1902, MMW.
In the circulation war: DCS to JP, 9/17/1891, WP-CU. Earlier in the year, when giving instructions to his editors, Pulitzer used an example that eerily came to pass, “Not even if McKinley is assassinated.”(JP comment, in Merrill summary upon return from Jekyll, 3/8–10/1901 WP-CU.)
For the first: WAS, 324; BM memo, 10/21/1901, WP-CU.
On the other hand: PB to JP, 9/10/1901, WP-CU.
The combination of: Two years later the Wall Street Journal, which regularly commented on the city’s journalism, noted the change. “The World has in the past few years retained all the more desirable attributes of the ‘yellow’ journalism, [but] it has abandoned many of the methods of degraded demagoguery which have made the Journal a stench in the nostrils of people who are able to think.” (WSJ, 5/11/1903, 1.)
The calm that Pulitzer: Figures contained in 1902 Folder, JP-CU, Box 19.
In choosing art: GHL to JP, 3/24/1902, JP-CU.
Kate was willing: JP to KP, 4/16/1902, JP-CU. In fairness, Joseph also included tender words about how much he was thinking of her. But these may well have been written to make her feel better or may have been the idea of Butes, who would have taken the dictation.
Kate, however, did not: GHL to AB, 5/23/1902, JP-CU.
“I not only”: DCS-JP, 254.
Joseph left Kate: Dr. Bounus to JP, 7/3/1902, JP-CU; KP to GHL, 7/27/1902, JP-CU.
Alone in Maine: GHL to AB, 8/9/1902 and AB to GHL, 8/10/1902, JP-CU.
In September, John Dillon: BoGl, 10/16/1902, 4; ChTr. 10/17/1902, 12.
For an additional: JP to FDW, 10/16/1902. Bills, letters, and drawings, 10/29/1902; prepaid voucher, 10/29/1902, JP-CU; JP dictation to White Star, 8/28/1905, LS Folder, 1903–1905; JP to White Star, 11/17/1900, JP-CU. White Star kept the mats in storage for times when Pulitzer booked passage. See AI, 196–197.
Years before, while running: PD, 5/30/1879, 2. The meeting was the Thirteenth Annual Session of the Missouri Press Association, held at Columbia, MO, May 27 and 28, 1879; Chicago Inter-Ocean, 11/27/1887. See also NYW, 4/4/1887, quoted in WRR, 754.
By the 1890s: Life, 9/8/1898, 189. Henry Luce would later buy this magazine and turn it into the famous weekly of the twentieth century.
While he was at rest: Correspondence, 8/12/1902, JP-CU, indicates that a lawyer came to Maine to revise the will. For an example of press figures with whom Pulitzer discussed his