See Also: Ochs, Adolph Simon(encyclopedia)
Sulzberger, Arthur Ochs(encyclopedia)
Svengali(dictionary)
Svengali(dictionary)
Svengali Deck - Poker(gambling)
Krukenberg, Adolph(medicine)
Adolph (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Jungling, Adolph(medicine)
Hannover, Adolph(medicine)
Krebs, Sir Hans Adolph(medicine)

Ochs, Adolph Simon (sh) and Svengali (oh)


Ochs, Adolph Simon (sh)




born March 12, 1858, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
died April 8, 1935, Chattanooga, Tenn.

U.S. newspaper publisher.

Ochs grew up in Tennessee, where he worked for various newspapers. At age 20 he borrowed $250 to become proprietor of the moribund Chattanooga Times, which he developed into one of the South's leading newspapers. He gained control of the financially faltering New York Times in 1896. Despising yellow journalism, he adopted the slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print" and emphasized comprehensive and trustworthy news gathering. Under his ownership the Times became one of the world's outstanding newspapers. From 1900 he was a director of the Associated Press. Ochs's son-in-law, Arthur H. Sulzberger, was the first in a succession of family heirs to lead the New York Times Co.


Svengali (oh)



[Date: 1900-2000; Origin: Svengali, character who uses hypnotism to get control over people in the book Trilby (1894) by George Du Maurier]
a man who has the power to control people's minds and make them do bad or immoral things