The New York Herald Tribune Syndicate was the syndication service of the New York Herald Tribune . Syndicating comic strips and newspaper columns , it operated from c. 1914 to 1966. The syndicate's most notable strips were Mr. and Mrs. , Our Bill , Penny , Miss Peach , and B.C. Syndicated columns included Walter Lippmann 's Today and Tomorrow (c. 1933–1967), Weare Holbrook's Soundings , George Fielding Eliot 's military affairs column, and John Crosby 's radio and television column. Irita Bradford Van Doren was book review editor for a time.
31-708: The syndicate dates back to at least 1914, when it was part of the New York Tribune . (The Tribune acquired the New York Herald in 1924 to form the New York Herald Tribune .) The syndicate's first comic strip of note was Clare Briggs ' Mr. and Mrs. , which debuted in 1919. Harry Staton became the editor and manager of the syndicate in 1920; other notable strips which launched in the 1920s included Harrison Cady 's Peter Rabbit , Charles A. Voight 's Betty (which had originated with
62-591: A fabricated story of wild animals getting loose at the Central Park Zoo and attacking numerous people. On October 4, 1887, Bennett Jr. sent Julius Chambers to Paris, France , to launch its European Edition. Later he moved to Paris himself, but the New York Herald suffered from his attempt to manage its operation in New York by telegram. In 1916 a Saturday issue of the paper reported that
93-633: A feature of the paper was a list of every American known to be in Paris at the time, culled from inspections of hotel registries. Even as the paper's audience grew, most of its readers were in France or countries near France. The European edition consistently lost money into the 1910s. As the time of Paris in World War I began, Bennett Jr. kept the paper running, even during the First Battle of
124-506: A few weeks later. Tribune editor Whitelaw Reid purchased the paper following Greeley's death. In 1886, with Reid's support, the Tribune became the first publication in the world to be printed on a linotype machine , which was invented by a German immigrant, inventor Ottmar Mergenthaler . This technique allowed it to exceed the standard newspaper size of only eight pages while still speeding up printing time per copy, thereby increasing
155-576: A large readership, with a circulation of approximately 200,000 during the 1850s. This made the paper the largest circulation daily in New York City—gaining commensurate influence among voters and political decision-makers in the process. During the Civil War Greeley crusaded against slavery, lambasting Democrats while calling for a mandatory draft of soldiers for the first time in the U.S. This led to an Irish mob attempting to burn down
186-543: A major financier was found dead from poisoning; it added that in 1901 he was "mysteriously poisoned and narrowly escaped death." After Bennett Jr. died in 1918, Frank Munsey acquired control of the New York Herald (including its European Edition). In 1924 Munsey sold the paper to the family of Ogden Reid , owners of the New-York Tribune , creating the New York Herald Tribune (and
217-432: A rotating roster of cartoon features: The Timid Soul was seen on both Sunday and Monday. Youth's glories ( The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime ) and the downside ( Life's Darkest Moment ) appeared on Saturdays and Tuesdays. On Wednesday, The Unseen Audience offered satirical jabs at radio. How to Torture Your Husband (or Wife) was published each Thursday, and the week ended with Bridge on Fridays. Strips begun in
248-448: The New-York Tribune to form the New York Herald Tribune . The first issue of the paper was published by James Gordon Bennett Sr. , on May 6, 1835. The Herald distinguished itself from the partisan papers of the day by the policy that it published in its first issue: "We shall support no party—be the agent of no faction or coterie, and we care nothing for any election, or any candidate from president down to constable," although it
279-544: The International Herald Tribune with a divergent future). When the Herald was still under the authority of its original publisher Bennett Sr., it was considered to be the most intrusive and sensationalist of the leading New York papers. Its ability to entertain the public with timely daily news made it the leading circulation paper of its period. During the time of original publisher Bennett,
310-620: The McClure Syndicate ), Crawford Young's Clarence , and H. T. Webster 's The Timid Soul (which had originated with the New York World ). All of those strips had long syndication runs of at least 25 years. Strips launched by the Herald Tribune Syndicate in the 1930s included Dow Walling's Skeets and Harry Haenigsen 's Our Bill , both of which had long runs. H. T. Webster 's arrival in 1931 led to
341-605: The New York Herald was perhaps the best-known American paper in Europe. Its first issue came out on October 4, 1887. The official name of the paper on its front page masthead was The New York Herald European Edition—Paris. But it became widely known as simply the Paris Herald . Publisher Bennett Jr. referred to the paper as a "village publication" for the circle of people in Paris who were interested in international news. Indeed, during its first decades of publication,
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#1732786896781372-564: The New-York Tribune . Greeley sponsored a host of reforms, including pacifism and feminism and especially the ideal of the hardworking free laborer. Greeley demanded reforms to make all citizens free and equal. He envisioned virtuous citizens who would eradicate corruption. He talked endlessly about progress, improvement, and freedom, while calling for harmony between labor and capital. Greeley's editorials promoted social democratic reforms and were widely reprinted. They influenced
403-605: The Tribune building in lower Manhattan during the Draft Riots . Greeley ran for president as the nominee of the Liberal Republican Party (and subsequently the Democratic Party ) in the 1872 election against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in his bid for a second term. Greeley was unsuccessful and, soon after the defeat, checked into Dr. George C.S. Choate's Sanitarium , where he died only
434-597: The 1940s included Haenigsen's Penny and Leslie Charteris & Mike Roy's The Saint . Buell Weare stepped in as the syndicate business manager in 1946 and Harold Straubing was comics editor c. 1946-1954. In the period 1947–1948, the syndicate tried out a number of weekly filler strips, none of which were particularly successful. Mell Lazarus ' Miss Peach and Johnny Hart 's B.C. debuted in 1957 and 1958 respectively, and both went on to long runs (though ultimately with other syndicates). In 1963, New York Herald Tribune publisher John Hay Whitney (who also owned
465-745: The Chicago-based Field Enterprises ) acquired the Chicago-based Publishers Syndicate , merging Publishers' existing syndication operations with the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, Field's Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate , and the syndicate of the Chicago Daily News (a newspaper that had been acquired by Field Enterprises in 1959). When the New York Herald Tribune folded in 1966, Publishers inherited
496-559: The Marne when some French papers shut down. When the American Expeditionary Forces began arriving in France in 1917, demand for the Paris Herald soared, with eventually some 350,000 copies being printed each day and the edition finally becoming profitable. The European edition subsequently became a mainstay of American expatriate culture in Europe. In Ernest Hemingway 's novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926),
527-548: The Tribune Syndicate's strips, including B.C. , Miss Peach , and Penny . In 1967, Field Enterprises acquired Robert M. Hall 's New York-based Hall Syndicate, merging it with Publishers to form the Publishers-Hall Syndicate . New York Tribune The New-York Tribune (from 1914: New York Tribune ) was an American newspaper founded in 1841 by editor Horace Greeley . It bore
558-601: The first thing the novel's protagonist Jake Barnes does on returning from Spain to France is buy the New York Herald from a kiosk in Bayonne in the Basses-Pyrénées department and read it at a café. The New York Evening Telegram was founded in 1867 by the junior Bennett, and was considered by many to be an evening edition of the Herald . Frank Munsey acquired the Telegram in 1920 and ended its connection to
589-748: The free-labor ideology of the Whigs and the radical wing of the Republican Party, especially in promoting the free-labor ideology. Before 1848 he sponsored an American version of Fourierist socialist reform, but backed away after the failed revolutions of 1848 in Europe. To promote multiple reforms, Greeley hired a roster of writers who later became famous in their own right, including Margaret Fuller , Charles Anderson Dana , George William Curtis , William Henry Fry , Bayard Taylor , George Ripley , Julius Chambers , and Henry Jarvis Raymond , who later co-founded The New York Times . In 1852–62,
620-602: The late nineteenth century are available on the Library of Congress ' website . The original paper articles from the newspaper's morgue are kept at The Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin . New York Herald The New York Herald was a large-distribution newspaper based in New York City that existed between 1835 and 1924. At that point it was acquired by its smaller rival
651-636: The moniker New-York Daily Tribune from 1842 to 1866 before returning to its original name. From the 1840s through the 1860s it was the dominant newspaper first of the American Whig Party , then of the Republican Party . The paper achieved a circulation of approximately 200,000 in the 1850s, making it the largest daily paper in New York City at the time. The Tribune ' s editorials were widely read, shared, and copied in other city newspapers, helping to shape national opinion. It
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#1732786896781682-459: The overall number of copies that could be printed. Under Reid's son, Ogden Mills Reid , the paper acquired and merged with the New York Herald in 1924 to form the New York Herald Tribune . The New York Herald Tribune continued to be run by Ogden M. Reid until his death in 1947. Copies of the New-York Tribune are available on microfilm at many large libraries and online at the Library of Congress . Also, indices from selected years in
713-530: The paper financed Henry Morton Stanley 's expeditions into Africa to find explorer David Livingstone , where they met on November 10, 1871. The paper also supported Stanley's trans-Africa exploration . In 1879 it supported the ill-fated expedition of George W. De Long to the Arctic region. In 1874 the Herald ran the New York Zoo hoax , in which the front page of the newspaper was devoted entirely to
744-527: The paper from 1846 to 1866. During the mid-19th century, the New York Herald adopted a proslavery stance, with Bennett arguing that the Compromise of 1850 would lead to "but little anxiety entertained in relation to the question of slavery , the public mind will be so fatigued that it will be disinclined to think of the matter any further." In April 1867 Bennett turned over control of the paper to his son James Gordon Bennett Jr. Under James Jr.,
775-404: The paper retained Karl Marx as its London-based European correspondent. Friedrich Engels also submitted articles under Marx's by-line. Marx resented much of his time working for the Tribune , particularly the many edits and deadlines they imposed upon him, and bemoaned the "excessive fragmentation of [his] studies", noting that since much of his work was reporting on current economic events, "I
806-622: The world." Bennett stated that the function of a newspaper "is not to instruct but to startle and amuse." His politics tended to be anti-Catholic and he had tended to favor the " Know Nothing " faction, but he was not so anti-immigrant as the Know-Nothing Native American Party. During the American Civil War , Bennett's policy, as expressed by the newspaper, was to staunchly support the Democratic Party . Frederic Hudson served as managing editor of
837-455: Was compelled to become conversant with practical detail which, strictly speaking, lie outside the sphere of political economy". Engels wrote "It doesn't matter if they are never read again.". In the same correspondence Marx disparagingly referred to the publication as a "blotting paper vendor". Nevertheless, Engels cited this career as a positive achievement of Marx's during a eulogy given at his funeral. Edgar Allan Poe 's poem " Annabel Lee "
868-476: Was created by Horace Greeley in 1841 with the goal of providing a straightforward, trustworthy media source. Greeley had previously published a weekly newspaper, The New Yorker (unrelated to the later modern magazine of the same name), in 1833 and was also publisher of the Whig Party 's political organ, Log Cabin . In 1841, he merged operations of these two publications into a new newspaper that he named
899-490: Was first published in the newspaper as part of his October 9, 1849, obituary, "Death of Edgar A. Poe", by Rufus Griswold . In addition, Poe's "The Bells" was published in the October 17, 1849, issue as "Poe's Last Poem". Founded in a time of civil unrest, the paper joined the newly formed Republican Party in 1854, named it after the party of Thomas Jefferson , and emphasized its opposition to slavery. The paper generated
930-512: Was one of the first papers in the North to send reporters, correspondents, and illustrators to cover the campaigns of the American Civil War . It continued as an independent daily newspaper until 1924, when it merged with the New York Herald . The resulting New York Herald Tribune remained in publication until 1966. Among those who served on the paper's editorial board were Bayard Taylor , George Ripley , and Isidor Lewi . The Tribune
961-613: Was typically considered sympathetic to the Jacksonian Democratic Party and later, President John Tyler . Bennett pioneered the "extra" edition during the Herald' s sensational coverage of the Robinson–Jewett murder case . By 1845 it was the most popular and profitable daily newspaper in the United States. In 1861 it circulated 84,000 copies and called itself "the most largely circulated journal in