NH Union Leader

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On the same August night that Fox News hosts a much-criticized and limited Republican presidential debate in Cleveland, the Union Leader will host a New Hampshire Presidential Forum in the first primary state.  It will be televised nationally by C-SPAN, which will also broadcast it on radio. Union Leader Publisher Joseph W. McQuaid said the newspaper has been considering such a forum for some time. He said an open protest letter sent Wednesday to Fox and the Republican National Committee from 56 prominent state Republicans should be a wake-up call to everyone in New Hampshire. - See more at: http://www.unionleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20150610/NEWS0605/150619874/-1/mobile#sthash.ht5IihHj.dpuf</h1><h1 class="headline" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2em;">=http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/16/the-nh-union-leader-just-hired-a-disciple-of-th/205587</h1><h1 itemprop="name" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 21.5938px; max-width: 100%; width: 659.578px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The NH Union Leader Just Hired A Disciple Of The Koch Brothers To Run Its Editorial Page</h1><h5 class="dhandler-byline" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 21.5938px;"><a class="type-research-byline" href="http://mediamatters.org/research" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Research </a><time datetime="2015-09-16T12:37:27-04:00" itemprop="datePublished">September 16, 2015 12:37 PM EDT </time>››› DANIEL ANGSTER</h5><h1 class="headline" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2em;"><div class="wrap content" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; width: 745.766px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 20px !important;"><div class="bd" style="width: 730.844px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="bd-main item" style="width: 694.297px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; margin: 0px auto;"><div class="bd-headline left" style="width: 659.578px; margin: 0px auto;"><div itemprop="articleBody" class="item-body">The New Hampshire Union Leader has hired Grant Bosse, a former researcher at a think tank funded by the Koch brothers, to be the new editor of the paper's editorial page. In his previous role as a columnist for New Hampshire's Concord Monitor, Bosse defended the Koch brothers and once wrote that progressives who believe the billionaire industrialists are trying to control the Republican Party subscribe to a "conspiracy theory."</div></div></div></div></div></h1>

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The New Hampshire Union Leader is the daily <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper" title="Newspaper" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">newspaper</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester,New_Hampshire" title="Manchester, New Hampshire" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Manchester</a>, the largest city in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">U.S.</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.state" title="U.S. state" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">state</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New Hampshire</a>. On Sundays, it publishes as the New Hampshire Sunday News.

Founded in 1863, the paper was best known for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism" title="Conservatism" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">conservative</a> political opinions of its late publisher,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III" title="William Loeb III" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">William Loeb</a>, and his wife, Elizabeth Scripps "Nackey" Loeb. Famously, the paper helped derail <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine" title="Maine" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Maine</a>Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Muskie" title="Edmund Muskie" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Edmund Muskie</a>'s bid for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination by criticizing Muskie's wife,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Muskie" title="Jane Muskie" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jane</a>, in editorials, leading him to defend her in a press conference that had a clear and measured negative effect on voter perceptions of him in the state. (See also: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canuck_letter" title="Canuck letter" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Canuck letter</a>.)

Over the decades, the Loebs gained considerable influence, and helped shape New Hampshire's political landscape. In 2000, after Nackey's death on January 8, Joseph McQuaid, the son and nephew of the founders of the New Hampshire Sunday News, Bernard J. and Elias McQuaid, took over as publisher.

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#History" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1 History</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#Institutional_pedigree" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2 Institutional pedigree</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#Contributors" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3 Contributors</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#Editorial_style" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">4 Editorial style</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#2009_cutbacks" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">5 2009 cutbacks</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#References" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">7 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#External_links" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">8 External links</a></li>

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The weekly Union became the Manchester Daily Union. (with a period) on March 31, 1863. The afternoonUnion became a morning Daily Union (dropping the "Manchester"). Although the Union began as a Democratic paper, by the early 1910s it had been purchased by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londonderry,_New_Hampshire" title="Londonderry, New Hampshire" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Londonderry</a> politician Rosecrans Pillsbury, a Republican.

Office of the Manchester Daily Union and its publisher <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Campbell_%26_Hanscom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Campbell & Hanscom (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Campbell & Hanscom</a> in 1877.</div>

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<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">In October 1912, the competing Manchester Leader was founded by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Knox" title="Frank Knox" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Frank Knox</a> and financed by then-Governor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_P.Bass" title="Robert P. Bass" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Robert P. Bass</a>, a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party(United_States,_1912)" title="Progressive Party (United States, 1912)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Progressive</a> (or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Moose" title="Bull Moose" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bull Moose</a>) Party who was attempting to promote the Progressive cause in New Hampshire. The newspaper was so successful that Knox bought out the Union, and the two newspapers merged under one company, the Union-Leader Corporation, in July 1913. Owing to Pillsbury's stake in the new company, Knox moved his paper politically to the right, and theManchester Union-Leader became a moderate, generally pro-business, Republican newspaper.

Following Knox's death in 1944, William Loeb purchased the newspaper and moved it further to the right. He often placed editorials on the front page and supported highly conservative candidates for public office. He dropped Manchester from the paper's masthead in the mid-1970s to emphasize the fact that it is the only statewide newspaper in New Hampshire. However, it is still called the Manchester Union Leader by some residents due to its historical legacy. On April 4, 2005; it changed its name to the New Hampshire Union Leader to reflect its statewide reach.

The New Hampshire Sunday News was created in 1948 and later, after Loeb's failed attempts to start a Sunday edition of the Union-Leader failed, was purchased by the Union-Leader Corporation. The Union Leader still publishes the Sunday News as its Sunday edition.

Two notable early employees of the New Hampshire Sunday News were <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ralph_M.Blagden&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ralph M. Blagden (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Ralph M. Blagden</a>, the first Managing Editor,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> and an even more prominent journalist he mentored, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_C.Bradlee" title="Benjamin C. Bradlee" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Benjamin C. Bradlee</a>. Bradlee was then a reporter<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#cite_note-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a> but went on to be the Executive Editor of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The Washington Post</a> for nearly 30 years and is now its vice president.

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<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0"><caption align="bottom" style=" margin-top: 1em;">Institutional Pedigree of the New Hampshire Union Leader</caption><tbody><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">The Amoskeag Representativefounded October 18, 1839, by John Caldwell<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">→</td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">January 22, 1841, name change<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#cite_note-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">→</td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">Manchester Representative</td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">→</td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td colspan="2" style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td colspan="2" style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">December 2, 1842, merge<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#cite_note-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">→</td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">Manchester Democrat</td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> →</td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">August 4, 1848, name change<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#cite_note-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> →</td><td colspan="2" style=" background-color: rgb(220, 219, 212);">The Democrat</td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(227, 225, 214);"> →</td><td style=" background-color: rgb(227, 225, 214);">1857 merge</td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(227, 225, 214);"> →</td><td style=" background-color: rgb(227, 225, 214);">The Democrat and American</td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td width="20" rowspan="3" style=" border-right-width: 4px; border-right-style: dotted; border-right-color: gray; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td rowspan="3" style=" padding: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);">New Hampshire Democratic Party adopts a resolution declaring that The Democrat no longer represents its views and that a new paper should be established; editor William H. Gilmore leaves The Democrat to found the Union Democrat, January 1, 1851.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#cite_note-8" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td colspan="3" style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">The Manchester Democrat founded April 26, 1842, by William H. Kimball and Joseph Kidder<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#cite_note-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">→</td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td colspan="2" style=" vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">Union Democrat founded January 31, 1851, by William H. Gilmore & Company.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#cite_note-10" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">→</td><td colspan="4" style=" vertical-align: middle; padding: 0.75em; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">Known under various names and with a variety of associated papers: Manchester Union Democrat,Weekly Union, Daily Union (though there may have been at least one independent paper of this name),Manchester Daily Union, Monthly Literary Union, Manchester Union.</td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">→</td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td colspan="2" style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" border-right-width: 4px; border-right-style: double; border-right-color: gray; background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);">

<div style=" float: right; width: 269.390625px; padding: 0.75em;">In 1913 ownership was unified under the Union-Leader Publishing Company but the papers remained separate.</div>

</td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td width="10em" style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td colspan="3" style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III" title="William Loeb III" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">William Loeb</a>purchase and 1948 merge<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#cite_note-WhoISLoeb-11" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a></td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">→</td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">Manchester Union Leaderaccompanied by the Manchester Sunday News for several decades.</td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">→</td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">Union Leader</td></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td colspan="4" style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">Manchester Leader founded October 1912 by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Knox" title="Frank Knox" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Colonel Frank Knox</a> and John A. Muehling.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#cite_note-12" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a></td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">→</td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);"> </td><td rowspan="2" style=" border-left-width: 4px; border-left-style: double; border-left-color: gray; background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);">

<div style=" float: left; width: 105.59375px; padding: 0.75em;">In 1948 Loeb acquired the New Hampshire Sunday News but continued to publish it separately.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#cite_note-WhoISLoeb-11" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a></div>

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McQuaid and Elias McQuaid.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#cite_note-WhoISLoeb-11" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a></td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">→</td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);"> </td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">→</td><td style=" text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">New Hampshire Sunday News</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<cite style=" font-style: normal;">—<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Harold_White" title="Theodore Harold White" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Theodore Harold White</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Making_of_the_President,_1972&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Making of the President, 1972 (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">The Making of the President, 1972</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Union-Leader#cite_note-13" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></cite>

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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Monitor" title="Concord Monitor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Concord Monitor</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster%27s_Daily_Democrat" title="Foster's Daily Democrat" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Foster's Daily Democrat</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keene_Sentinel" title="Keene Sentinel" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Keene Sentinel</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_of_Nashua" title="Telegraph of Nashua" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Telegraph of Nashua</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Herald" title="Portsmouth Herald" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Portsmouth Herald</a></li>

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William "Bill" Loeb III (December 26, 1905 – September 14, 1981) was publisher of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_Union_Leader" title="New Hampshire Union Leader" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Manchester Union Leader</a> newspaper (later The New Hampshire Union Leader) in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester,_New_Hampshire" title="Manchester, New Hampshire" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Manchester, New Hampshire</a>, from 1946 until his death in 1981. His pugnacious publications of conservative political views helped make the Union Leader one of the best-known small papers in the country, benefiting from nationwide attention every four years during the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_primary" title="New Hampshire primary" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New Hampshire primary</a>.

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His father was executive secretary to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Theodore Roosevelt</a>, and a nationally known figure in his own day. Loeb's grandfather was William Loeb I, a German immigrant of Jewish descent. Loeb's siblings were Louisa Loeb-Neudorf, Amelia Olive Loeb and Lillian May Loeb.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>

Young Loeb attended <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotchkiss_School" title="Hotchkiss School" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The Hotchkiss School</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_College" title="Williams College" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Williams College</a>, and soon met and married Elizabeth Nagy, a faculty member at nearby <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_College" title="Smith College" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Smith College</a>. They were married on May 29, 1926. Nagy was eight years older than Loeb, and his parents objected to the matrimony. Loeb's father excluded him from his will in light of the marriage.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> The couple divorced six years later on October 11, 1932, and Loeb received alimony from Nagy for several years. Later in his life, Loeb made efforts to hide the marriage, and records of the divorce (Loeb v. Loeb F-3144) were found missing at the time they were to be archived on microfiche.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>

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<p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Loeb partnered with his friend Charlie Weaver to buy the St. Albans Messenger in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.Albans(city),_Vermont" title="St. Albans (city), Vermont" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">St. Albans, Vermont</a>, in 1941 to enter the publishing arena. Loeb also received cash investments from a woman named Marka Loening, who indulged in an extramarital affair with Loeb while waiting for her divorce from her estranged husband to be finalized.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> Loeb later used funding from Loening to buy the Burlington Daily News in 1942. One of Loeb's first infamous journalistic exploits was the publishing of his own baptismal certificate on the front page of both Vermont papers in an attempt to disprove rumors of his Jewish ancestry.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>

Loeb cited ulcers for his medical exemption from service during <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">World War II</a>, allegedly drinking large quantities of alcohol before doctor's visits to ensure flare-ups.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>

In 1946, Loeb secured funding from Ridder Publications to buy the Manchester Union and the Evening Leader from Annie Reid Knox, the widow of former Navy Secretary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Franklin_Knox" title="William Franklin Knox" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">William Franklin Knox</a>. Mrs. Knox later regretted the sale, claiming she had not seen how Loeb handled his Vermont newspapers, and claiming that Loeb did not mention the involvement of the Ridder family.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> Loeb used $250,000 in funding from his mother's accounts to fund the purchase of his share in the papers, and later used an additional $300,000 to buy out other shareholders and gain complete control of the papers, which he then merged into the Union Leader.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>

In 1947, Loeb brought in investor Leonard Finder as a business partner in the paper. Marka Loening, increasingly resentful of the presence of Scripps-Howard heiress Elizabeth "Nackey" Scripps-Gallowhur in the newspaper offices, withdrew her interests in Loeb's papers that same year.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>Loeb's mother had been under the impression that he and Loening were to be married, but discovered upon Loening's departure that Loeb had been secretly married to Vermont resident Eleanore McAllister since 1942. Afterwards, Loeb publicly disclosed the marriage in his papers, but claimed it had taken place in 1947 and not 1942.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>

Meanwhile, new competition emerged in Manchester with the return of Bernard J. "B.J." McQuaid, a former Manchester Union reporter under the tenure of Colonel Knox, from military service in Europe. McQuaid founded a rival paper, The New Hampshire Sunday News, with his brother, Elias. Loeb quickly wooed Bernard McQuaid over to the Union Leader, and bought the Sunday News outright in 1948. With no other statewide media (radio signals being blocked by mountains, and other papers only local to their towns), Loeb essentially gained a media monopoly in the state for himself.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>He tried, but failed, to win the license for the only television station licensed in the state, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMUR-TV" title="WMUR-TV" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">WMUR-TV</a>.

Loeb's wife McAllister gave birth to a daughter, Katharine Penelope, on October 29, 1948.

In 1949, Loeb used the additional $300,000 from his mother and cash from various state politicians he endorsed to buy out Leonard Finder. Also in 1949, Loeb founded the Vermont Sunday News, largely a copy of the New Hampshire edition's content.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>

On August 5, 1949, Loeb took Nackey Gallowhur to meet his mother in New York City. There, George Gallowhur, Nackey's husband, attempted to serve her divorce papers. Loeb refused to permit Gallowhur's agents from serving her, and he was jailed briefly for interfering.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> Gallowhur sued Loeb for alienation of affection in accordance with an old Vermont law. Mrs. Loeb, infuriated at her son's mistreatment of Eleanore, excluded Bill from her will and sued him for the one million dollars in funding he obtained from her to finance his acquisitions of the Union Leader in 1946 and 1949.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>

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<p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Loeb continued to see Nackey. In 1949, he fired the print staff at his Vermont newspapers when they attempted to unionize. Nackey was initially placed in charge of printing, but the couple left the state in 1952 in the wake of his mother's lawsuit, and moved to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reno,_Nevada" title="Reno, Nevada" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Reno, Nevada</a>, where Loeb sued for divorce from McAllister and then married Nackey Gallowhur.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> The Vermont papers flailed in the absence of Loeb's attention, and also suffered from negative reader and advertiser reaction to his opinionated absentee editorials. The Daily News ceased operations in 1959. Loeb did not visit the St. Albans paper offices again until 1973.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>

In 1950, Loeb repeated his baptismal certificate stunt, this time on the Union Leader front page. He again hoped to dispel gossip about his Jewish heritage, this time in the wake of controversy surrounding his political endorsements.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>

Loeb moved to Pride's Crossing outside <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly,Massachusetts" title="Beverly, Massachusetts" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Beverly, Massachusetts</a>, in 1955 to be closer to his New England newspaper operations. In 1957 he attempted to launch a paper in nearby <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haverhill,Massachusetts" title="Haverhill, Massachusetts" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Haverhill</a>, the Haverhill Journal, but the publication proved to be a drain on the staff and presses shared with his other newspapers.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> The Journal folded in 1965, and Loeb blamed union activity for the closure.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> During a newspaper strike in Boston, he imported copies of the Union Leader into the city, but stopped after incorrect sports information in the publication led to threats from figures in the city's crime world. Loeb purchased the rights to the Connecticut Sunday Herald name (but not its presses), and relaunched it from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bridgeport, Connecticut</a>, but once again his editorial stances alienated readers, and the paper closed.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>

Loeb's mother, Katherine Dorr-Loeb, died on November 24, 1968. Her will acknowledged Loeb's siblings, ex-wife Eleanore McAllister, and his daughter Katharine Penelope, but left him nothing. He filed suit, beginning a five-year legal battle that lasted through 1973 and rose to the Vermont Supreme Court, claiming that he had reconciled with his mother and that she had promised him 75% of her estate. He settled for less than 10%, after her estate had been drained of the bulk of its funds through his legal maneuvering.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> Loeb separated himself from Eleanore and Katharine Penelope. When his daughter suffered a near-fatal injury in an equestrian accident the next year and lost a kidney, Loeb refused to speak to her.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>

Loeb's journalism resume was the subject of skepticism in 1974, when he claimed in a front-page editorial to have worked for the Hearst conglomerate, as a reporter for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_World" title="New York World" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New York World</a> for eight years before buying his St. Albans paper. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearst_Corporation" title="Hearst Corporation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Hearst Corporation</a> denied he had ever been employed there, and the World had actually ceased operations eight years before Loeb said he had started work there. Toledo Blade chairman Paul Block, Jr. also denied ever seeing Loeb on the assignments he claimed to have worked.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Cash-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>

William Loeb died in 1981 and left control of the Union Leader to his wife, Nackey. She suffered partial paralysis in a 1977 automobile accident, but continued to publish the paper until her death in 2000, when control fell to Bernard McQuaid's son, Joseph McQuaid. The Union Leader now operates several weekly community papers under the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhood_News,_Inc." title="Neighborhood News, Inc." style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Neighborhood News, Inc.</a> name in southern New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Mirror, a biweekly women's magazine, and the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newhampshire.com/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">NewHampshire.Com</a> website.

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Loeb is best remembered nationally for his alleged role in attacking <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Muskie" title="Edmund Muskie" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Edmund Muskie</a> through the Union Leader in what is known locally as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canuck_letter" title="Canuck letter" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Canuck letter</a>, derailing the Maine senator's 1972 presidential bid. Loeb is said to have helped in the forgery and publication of the letter in the paper's op-ed section. The letter slandered French-Canadians, and implied Muskie was prejudiced against them. Muskie's emotional defense of himself in front of theUnion Leader offices in Manchester was seen as a sign of weakness and instability. Muskie later claimed that there were not tears in his eyes, as many papers reported, but rather snowflakes (as it had been snowing that evening).

Loeb also gained infamy in the 1970s for attacking then-governor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_R.Peterson,Jr." title="Walter R. Peterson, Jr." style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Walter R. Peterson, Jr.</a>'s teenage daughter for allegedly advocating the use of marijuana. She suffered an emotional breakdown as a result of the stress and public scrutiny thrust upon her in the wake of the allegations.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Time-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> Loeb was instrumental in the victory of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meldrim_Thomson,_Jr." title="Meldrim Thomson, Jr." style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Meldrim Thomson, Jr.</a> in the next gubernatorial election, and remained a political ally until his death.

William and Nackey had one daughter, Edith Roosevelt Loeb-Tomasko.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-LoebSchool-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a> Nackey and George Gallowhur had a daughter from their marriage, Nackey E. Gallowhur-Scagliotti.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-FamilyTree-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a> Both daughters operate the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications.

Author Kevin Cash published a biography of Loeb entitled Who the Hell IS William Loeb? in 1975. Loeb's legal threats forced Cash to create his own publishing company, incorporated in Delaware, out of Loeb's reach. After four New Hampshire publishers balked at printing it, Cash had the book printed in Vermont.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb_III#cite_note-Time-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a>

In New Hampshire, his major legacy is an anti-tax pledge that has been taken not only by all Republicans seeking gubernatorial nomination, but all Democrats who have successfully been elected.

Loeb did not hesitate to castigate fellow Republicans, once writing: "This newspaper now solemnly charges that President Eisenhower has done more to destroy the respect, honor and power of the United States than any President in its history." (Editorial, "Prince Of Appeasement," June 23, 1955, referring to the Austrian Treaty that allowed the Soviet Union to continue influence over Austria.) Loeb also stood alone among conservatives in his staunch support for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa" title="Jimmy Hoffa" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Jimmy Hoffa</a>, despite otherwise being a foe of labor.

=<p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Four unbroken generations of the McQuaid family have been newspapermen–publishers, editors, reporters, telegraphers, and journalists.<p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">From the day the first McQuaid arrived here from Ireland, the family has spelled their name two different ways–“McQuade” and “McQuaid,” but the local branch uses the latter spelling. The first American immigrant, Murtaugh, appeared in the United States by 1837, removing to Lowell, Massachusetts where his descendants remained for a few generations.<p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Joseph W. “Joe” McQuaid is the third generation newsman [see note at end of this story]. He started as a news office boy at the age of 15, working under his father, “B.J.” McQuaid who was a co-founder of the New Hampshire Sunday News, and former editor in chief of the Union Leader.<p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Later Joe was a sports reporter, and even later “an award winning editor.”  In June of 1999 the became Managing Editor, and in 1982 Editor-in-Chief and General manager of the<a href="http://www.unionleader.com/" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Union Leader</a>.  In 1999 just before Nackey Loeb’s death (in 2000), he became publisher of the newspaper.  In 2002 he was inducted into the Academy of New England Journalists. He is a founding member and president of the <a href="http://www.loebschool.org/" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Nackey S.</a><a href="http://www.loebschool.org/" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Loeb School </a><a href="http://www.loebschool.org/" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">of Communications</a>.<p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On an airing of <a href="http://www.npr.org/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">NPR</a>, Joe McQuaid said that his favorite place is the “Cow Pasture” on<a href="http://www.cowhampshireblog.com/blog?cmd=search&keywords=Mt+Washington" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">Mount Washington in New Hampshire</a>. Apparently Joe used to work for the Cog Railway, and (for him) that area, at least pictorially, summed up the State of NH.<p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Joe McQuaid’s immigrant ancestor, Murtaugh McQuade was an engraver. Possibly he may have employed his talent to create plate illustrations for newspapers, pamphlets, or calling cards. (Did you know that Paul Revere was an engraver, in addition to being a silversmith?).<p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So it is entirely possible that Joe’s “newspaper family” goes back six generations, rather than four.  My thanks to Joe McQuaid and the Union Leader for providing photographs for this article.Nackey S. Loeb (1924-2000) was an artist, mother, equestrian, wife, hunter, newswoman, author and to many, a good friend and neighbor. Mrs. Loeb was president and publisher of the Union Leader Corp., owner of New Hampshire's only statewide newspaper and a powerful figure in state and national politics. Her endorsement was coveted by presidential hopefuls running in New Hampshire's First-in-the-Nation Primary and by local candidates.She was born into the newspaper industry, a granddaughter of Edward Willis Scripps, founder of what became E.W. Scripps Company. In 1952, she married William Loeb, president and publisher of the Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News. When he passed away in 1981, Mrs. Loeb took the reins of the newspapers. She did not shy away from a tradition started by her husband. As publisher, she continued writing strong front-page editorials.She was a woman of vision. She instituted several changes at the paper: establishing an internet presence, purchasing a new color press and building a state-of-the-art plant. She also purchased a group of community newspapers and was known for her generosity to charitable organizations.In 1999, Mrs. Loeb founded a non-profit communications school. The mission of her namesake school is to inspire interest, integrity and excellence in journalism and other forms of communication. It also promotes understanding of and appreciation for the First Amendment. This particular constitutional guarantee gives us free press and speech, among other liberties, and is a fundamental tenet of Mrs. Loeb's generous educational legacy. Communication classes are taught, mostly without charge, to students of all ages at the Manchester-based school. First Amendment forums are held throughout the state.Daughters Nackey Scagliotti and the late Edith Tomasko supported the school to remember their mother and help honor New Hampshire residents who fight to protect the First Amendment. ==

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