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Scripps-McRae League Renamed Scripps-Howard as Second-Largest Newspaper Chain Consolidates Power

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The Scripps-McRae League is renamed Scripps-Howard Newspapers in early November 1922, recognizing company executive Roy W. Howard as co-director and consolidating control of the nation’s second-largest newspaper chain after William Randolph Hearst’s empire. Founder E.W. Scripps …

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