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Adolph Ochs
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Adolph Simon Ochs (March 12, 1858 – April 8, 1935) was an American newspaper publisher and former owner of The New York Times and The Chattanooga Times, which is now the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Through his only child, Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, and her husband Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Ochs's descendants continue to publish The New York Times through the present day.
Quotes
All the News That's Fit to Print.
Motto of The New York Times, vol. 46, no. 14,067 (September 19, 1896) p. 6, col. 7, and printed on the masthead of all editions since vol. 46, no. 14,190 (February 10, 1897). See: Susan S. Lukesh, "Adolph Ochs", in William J. Hausman (ed.) Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, vol. 2 (German Historical Institute, 2012) online
Quotes about Ochs
It is hard to think of any group of seven words that have aroused more newspaper controversy.
Gerald W. Johnson, An Honorable Titan: A Biographical Study of Adolph S. Ochs (New York: Harper & Bros, 1946) ch. 6, sec. 5, pp. 156–7 (on Ochs' motto for the NYT)
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