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It was founded by Richard C. McCormick with John Wasson as publisher and editor on October 15, 1870, as the Arizona Citizen. When it ceased printing on May 16, 2009, the daily circulation was approximately 17,000, down from a high of 60,000 in the 1960s. [1]
Thomas Campbell Wasson (February 8, 1896 – May 23, 1948) was an American diplomat who was assassinated while serving as the Consul General for the United States in Jerusalem. He was also a member of the United Nations Truce Commission .
John Okafor, 62, Nigerian actor and comedian. [58] Ørjar Øyen, 97, Norwegian academic and sociologist, rector of the University of Bergen (1978–1983). [59] Søren Pape Poulsen, 52, Danish politician, MP (since 2015) and minister of justice (2016–2019), cerebral haemorrhage. [60] Richard Plotz, 75, American Tolkien scholar, cancer. [61]
Wasson began his banking career at Guaranty Trust Company in 1928, and moved to J.P. Morgan & Co. in 1934. That same year, he published a book [6] on the Hall Carbine Affair, in which he attempted to exonerate John Pierpont Morgan from guilt with respect to the incident, which had been viewed as an example of wartime profiteering.
Thomas John Watson Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was an American businessman who was the chairman and CEO of IBM. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956.
Sam Wasson is an American author and publisher, who often writes about the history of cinema in Hollywood. His works include the biography Fosse, the history books Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art and The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood and the co-authored Hollywood: The Oral History.
John Patrick Washington (July 18, 1908 – February 3, 1943) was a Catholic priest and a lieutenant in the United States Army. He was one of the Four Chaplains , who gave their lives to save other soldiers during the sinking of the troop transport Dorchester during World War II .
In 1939, he married the former Elizabeth Kennedy (1912–2002), [6] and they became the parents of three children, [1] G. Keith Funston Jr., Marguerite Funston Thatcher, and Gail Funston Wasson. [6] Funston, who lived most of the year in Sanibel, Florida, died at his summer home in Greenwich, Connecticut, on May 15, 1992. [3]