were married in Minneapolis in July 1947. After the war, in 1946, he started out as a reporter with the M inneapolis Tribune – one of the Cowles papers. Roosevelt – Arthur Sr.’s fellow Harvard Crimson editor – took office in 1933.Īrthur Jr., after joining a prominent New York City legal firm and then serving as skipper of a Navy subchaser during the bloody 1943 Italian campaign during World War II, decided to set his own path. became a tax expert and served as undersecretary of the treasury under President Herbert Hoover he is credited by many for designing the plan that began pulling the country out of financial chaos as President Franklin D. was the son of a nationally renowned Manhattan attorney. Educational yearnings and circumstance took her to Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and Stanford University on the other coast.īorn in 1914, Arthur Ballantine Jr.

Morley, the eldest of four siblings, learned the newspaper world but, as a female of the day, was perhaps denied a prominent role in the family business. The family purchased a newspaper in Minneapolis in 1935 and created the same standard at the Star and Tribune. Her grandfather, Gardner Cowles, had invested in a struggling paper in Des Moines in 1903 and turned the Register and Tribune into a model of 20th century business and journalistic success. Seventy years later, their children and grandchildren continue this unwavering tradition.Įlizabeth Morley Cowles was born into a newspaper-owning family in 1925. And they brought a strong voice that championed progress in infrastructure, business and politics – a voice that helped drag a rural area into the modern era. They brought stability to a newspaper market that had seen owners come and go in rapid succession for several decades.

Unflinching as they faced criticism and pushback from certain elements of the community, that is what they proceeded to do. But after making their purchase of two Durango newspapers in May 1952, they arrived with plenty of media business knowledge and a plan: Run a financially successful daily newspaper, accept no compromises in journalistic integrity, and make a difference in their adopted community.

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