William "Bill" Loeb III (December 26, 1905 - September 14, 1981), is the publisher of Union Union Leader (later The New Hampshire Union Leader) ) in Manchester, New Hampshire, for thirty-five years from 1946 until his death. His conservative and unfounded political views helped make The Union Leader one of the country's most popular small newspapers. This publication benefits from national attention every four years during New Hampshire's primary life.
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Initial years
Loeb was born in Washington, DC on December 26, 1905, son of William Loeb, Jr. (1866-1937) and Catharine (sometimes "Katherine") Dorr.
His father was the executive secretary for Theodore Roosevelt, and a figure known nationally in his day. Loeb's brother was William Loeb, a German immigrant Jewish descendant. Loeb brothers are Louisa Loeb-Neudorf, Amelia Olive Loeb, and Lillian May Loeb.
Young Loeb attended The Hotchkiss School and Williams College, and soon met and married Elizabeth Nagy, a faculty member at nearby Smith College. They married on May 29, 1926. Nagy was eight years older than Loeb, and her parents objected to the marriage. Loeb's father ruled him out of his will with respect to marriage. The couple divorced six years later on October 11, 1932, and Loeb received an allowance from Nagy for several years. Later in his life, Loeb tried to conceal the marriage, and divorce records (Loeb v. Loeb F-3144) were found lost by the time they would be archived with microfiche.
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Careers
Loeb partnered with his friend, Charlie Weaver, to buy St. Messenger Albans at St. Albans, Vermont, in 1941 to enter the publishing arena. Loeb also received cash investments from a woman named Marka Loening, who was involved in an affair with Loeb while waiting for a divorce from her distant husband to complete. Loeb then used the funding from Loening to buy Burlington Daily News in 1942. One of Loeb's first journalistic exploits was the publication of his own baptismal certificate on the front page of the two Vermont newspapers in an attempt to prove his disapproval. rumors of his Jewish ancestors.
Loeb cited the ulcer for his medical release from service during World War II, allegedly drinking large amounts of alcohol before a doctor's visit to ensure flare-up.
In 1946, Loeb obtained funding from Ridder Publications to purchase Manchester Union and Evening Leader from Annie Reid Knox, the former widow of Navy Secretary William Franklin Knox. Mrs Knox later regretted the sale, claiming that she had not seen how Loeb handled her Vermont newspapers, and claimed that Loeb did not mention the involvement of the Ridder family. Loeb used $ 250,000 in funding from his mother's account to fund his share purchase in newspapers, and in 1948 used an additional $ 300,000 to buy other shareholders and gain complete control over the paper, which was later incorporated into the Union Leader .
In 1947, Loeb took the investor Leonard Finder as a business partner in the paper. Marka Loening, increasingly annoyed at the presence of the Scripps-Howard Elizabeth heiress "Nackey" Scripps-Gallowhur in the newspaper office, drew her interest in Loeb's paper that same year. Loeb's mother had the impression that he and Loening were married but found on Loening's departure that Loeb had been secretly married to Vermont's Eleanore McAllister since 1942. After that, Loeb had publicly disclosed marriage in his letters, but claimed that it happened in 1947 and not 1942.
Meanwhile, a new competition emerged in Manchester with the return of Bernard J. "B.J." McQuaid, a former Manchester Union journalist under Colonel Knox, from military service in Europe. McQuaid founded a rival paper, The New Hampshire Sunday News , along with his brother, Elias. Loeb quickly ridiculed Bernard McQuaid into the Union Leader and bought the Sunday News directly in 1948. With no other media in the state (radio signals blocked by the mountains, and other letters) only locally to their cities), Loeb basically gained media monopoly in the country for himself. He tried, but failed, to win a license for the only state-licensed television station WMUR-TV.
Loeb's wife, McAllister gave birth to a daughter, Katharine Penelope, on October 29, 1948.
In 1949, Loeb used an additional $ 300,000 from his mother and cash from various state politicians whom he supported to buy Leonard Finder. Also in 1949, Loeb founded Vermont Sunday News , most of which was a copy of the contents of the New Hampshire edition.
On August 5, 1949, Loeb invited Nackey Gallowhur to meet his mother in New York City. There, George Gallowhur, Nackey's husband, attempted to serve his divorce papers. Loeb refused to allow Gallowhur agents to serve him, and he was briefly jailed for interrupting. Gallowhur sued Loeb for the exile of compassion in accordance with the old Vermont law. Mrs. Loeb, angry at her child's mistreatment of Eleanore, took Bill out of her will and sued her for a million dollars in funding she obtained from him to finance the acquisition of the Union Leader in 1946 and 1949..
Next life
Loeb continued to see Nackey. In 1949, he fired print staff in Vermont newspapers as they attempted to unionize. Nackey was originally commissioned to print, but the couple left the country in 1952 after his mother's demands, and moved to Reno, Nevada, where Loeb sued for divorce from McAllister and later married Nackey Gallowhur. The Vermont newspaper raged on the absence of Loeb's attention, and also suffered from the negative reader and advertiser's reaction to his editorial absence. The Daily News ceased operations in 1959. Loeb did not visit St. John's paper office. Albans again until 1973.
In 1950, Loeb repeated his baptismal certificate, this time on the front page of the Union Leader. He again hopes to dispel gossip about his Jewish heritage, this time amid controversy surrounding his political support.
Loeb moved to Pride's Crossing outside Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1955 to get closer to the operation of his New England newspaper. In 1957, he tried to launch a paper in nearby Haverhill, Haverhill Journal , but his publication proved to be draining staff and suppressing it was shared with other newspapers. The Journal folded in 1965, and Loeb blamed the union's activities for closure. During a newspaper strike in Boston, he imported copies of the Union Leader into the city, but quit after misinformation in sports publications caused threats from figures in the city crime scene. Loeb bought the rights to the Connecticut Sunday Herald (but not the press), and relaunched it from Bridgeport, Connecticut, but again his editorial stance made the reader isolated, and the newspaper closed.
Loeb's mother, Katherine Dorr-Loeb, died on November 24, 1968. His will acknowledged the siblings of Loeb, Eleanore's ex-wife McAllister, and daughter Katharine Penelope, but left nothing behind. He filed a lawsuit, started a five-year legal battle that lasted until 1973 and ascended to the Supreme Court of Vermont, claiming that he had reconciled with his mother and that he had pledged 75 percent of his estate. He settled less than 10 per cent, after his land had depleted most of the funds through his legal maneuvers. Loeb separates himself from Eleanore and Katharine Penelope. When his daughter suffered a near-fatal injury in a subsequent year's riding accident and kidney loss, Loeb refused to talk to her.
Loeb's journalism was a subject of skepticism in 1974, when he claimed in front page editorial work for the Hearst conglomerate, as a reporter for the New York World over the previous eight years. buy a newspaper St. Her Albans. Hearst Corporation denies he was ever employed there, and the World has completely stopped operating eight years before Loeb says he started working there. Chairman Toledo Blade Paul Block, Jr. also denied ever seeing Loeb about a task he claimed to have been successful.
William Loeb died in 1981 and surrendered control of Union Leader to his wife, Nackey. He suffered partial paralysis in a 1977 car accident, but continued to publish newspapers until his death in 2000, when control fell to Bernard McQuaid's son, Joseph McQuaid. The Union Leader now operates several weekly community papers under the name Neighborhood News, Inc. in southern New Hampshire, New Hampshire Mirror , bi-weekly women's magazine, and NewHampshire. Com website.
Legacy
Loeb is famous for unyielding conservatism. Union Leader has tilted the Republican editorial when he bought it, but veered right after the purchase. Since then, the newspaper has become one of the most conservative newspapers in the country.
Loeb is best known nationally for his alleged role in attacking Edmund Muskie through The Union Leader in what is locally known as Canuck's letter, dumping a 1972 presidential bid from senator Maine. Loeb is said to have helped in counterfeiting and publishing letters in the newspaper op-ed section. The letter slanders French-Canadians, and suggests Muskie is prejudiced against them. Muskie's emotional defenses about her in front of the Union Leader's office in Manchester are seen as a sign of weakness and instability. Muskie later claimed that there were no tears in his eyes, as many reports were reported, but more like snowflakes (like snow falling that night).
Loeb also gained blasphemy in the 1970s for attacking then-governor Walter R. Peterson, Jr.'s teenage daughter. for allegedly advocating the use of marijuana. He suffered emotional distress due to the pressure and public scrutiny he experienced in the midst of conjecture. Loeb was instrumental in the victory of Meldrim Thomson, Jr., in the next election of governor, and remained Thomson's political allies until Loeb's death.
William and Nackey have one daughter, Edith Roosevelt Loeb-Tomasko. Nackey and George Gallowhur had a daughter from their marriage, Nackey E. Gallowhur-Scagliotti. Her daughters operated the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications.
Author Kevin Cash publishes Loeb's biography entitled Who Is Hell IS William Loeb? in 1975. Loeb's legal threat forced Cash to create his own publishing company, incorporated in Delaware, out of reach of Loeb. After four New Hampshire publishers refused to print it, Cash had a book printed in Vermont.
In New Hampshire, the main heritage is the anti-tax promise that has been taken not only by all Republicans looking for the governor's nomination but all the successful Democrats.
Loeb did not hesitate to punish his fellow Republicans, as he writes: "This newspaper now seriously alleges that President Eisenhower has done more to destroy the respect, honor and power of the United States than any President in his history." Edwardial, "Prince Of Appeasement," June 23, 1955, refers to the Austrian Treaty allowing the Soviet Union to continue to influence Austria.) Loeb also stands alone among the conservatives in his persistent support for Jimmy Hoffa, despite being the enemy of work.
References
- Gfroerer, John. Strong as Truth: William Loeb and 35 Year New Hampshire. Concord [N.H.]: Accompany Video, 2001.
- Veblen, Eric. Manchester Union Leader in New Hampshire Elections. New York: HarperCollins, 1975.
External links
- Biography
- Time Magazine: Loeb Blow, 1/12/1976
- Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications
- Video Berdana, producer of "Powerful as Truth"
- Nackey Scripps Gallowhur Loeb Family Tree
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