The Lady Upstairs: Dorothy Schiff and the New York PostThe Lady Upstairs is the dramatic story of Dorothy Schiff---liberal activist, society stalwart, and the most dynamic female newspaper publisher of her day. From 1939 until 1976 she owned and guided the New York Post, the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the United States. Dolly, as she was called, made the Post one of the most dedicated supporters of New Deal liberalism in the country, while simultaneously maintaining its distinct personality as a chatty, parochial, New York tabloid. |
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... Street. Thousands of people showed upto showtheir respect,and many followedthe cortege all the way to the Salem Fields cemetery in Brooklyn. Schiff wasa hero to Jews and gentiles alike, who had profited from his generosity andadmired ...
... Street Settlement and its offshoot, the Visiting Nurse Service. After serving on the board of Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, he became one ofthe most prominent and magnanimous founders of the Montefiore Home and Hospitalinthe Bronx ...
... Street Settlement, hewalked the neighborhoods it served and talked with its clients.Hewas appalled by thelivingconditions he witnessed and washorrified to learn that many of the young immigrants, unable to find legitimate work, turned ...
... fromthe Great Depression. As the Wall Street boom of the late 1920s became more and more frenzied, Uncle Paul Warburg,who was married to Morti's mother's halfsister, became more and more worried. Early in 1929, he convinced Morti.
... Street Settlement. John received a bequest of $1million in cash. Dorothy wasgiven $750,000 (almost $8 million in 2007 dollars), and Dick Hallgot $250,000.Dorothy and Johnwereeach to receive in trust onefifth shares inthe residual estate ...
Contents
FOUR Media Adventures | |
FIVE Teds Tenure | |
SIX Transition Time SEVEN | |
NINE Charges and Countercharges | |
TEN I Got Married | |
ELEVEN Party Politics | |
SEVENTEEN Changing the Guard | |
NINETEEN Planning for the Future | |
Cloudsonthe Horizon TWENTY The Riseofthe New Left TWENTYONE Blacks vs Jews | |
TWENTYTHREE The Young Turks | |
TWENTYFOUR The WorstofTimes | |
TWENTYFIVE The Man from | |
TWENTYSIX Thereafter Notes | |
Acknowledgments | |
TWELVE Protecting the LittleGuy | |
FOURTEEN Bringing Down the Titans | |
Copyright | |