Alden
John, 1599?–1687, Pilgrim settler in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1620.
a male or female given name: from an Old English word meaning “old friend.”
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Indeed, Tribune’s board praised Alden’s bid for being “not subject to any financing condition,” when it supported the proposal in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
In a hedge fund’s bid for Tribune’s newspapers, a hidden risk lurks in the fine print | Jonathan O'Connell, Sarah Ellison | May 6, 2021 | Washington PostAlden and its managing partner, Heath Freeman, are known for aggressively cutting newspaper jobs to spur profits, and are currently the leading bidder for Tribune Publishing.
The hedge fund set to buy Tribune Publishing mismanaged employees’ pensions, federal investigators found | Jonathan O'Connell | April 23, 2021 | Washington PostMediaNews Group executives also signed an agreement saying it had no intention to make any future investments in funds sponsored or controlled by Alden.
The hedge fund set to buy Tribune Publishing mismanaged employees’ pensions, federal investigators found | Jonathan O'Connell | April 23, 2021 | Washington PostAlden, which ironically avoids press scrutiny while profiting from journalism, is notorious within the news industry for slashing the operations of the publications it acquires to boost their profitability.
The Baltimore Sun was spared a hedge-fund owner. Now it will try to survive as a nonprofit. | Paul Farhi, Elahe Izadi | February 17, 2021 | Washington Post“Nonprofit ownership may not be the perfect solution, but it’s a way better solution than partial or full Alden ownership,” tweeted statehouse reporter Pamela Wood.
The Baltimore Sun was spared a hedge-fund owner. Now it will try to survive as a nonprofit. | Paul Farhi, Elahe Izadi | February 17, 2021 | Washington Post
Nor is it clear why so many of the characters in the subplots, including Van Alden and Eli, have been shifted to Chicago.
'Boardwalk Empire' Left New Jersey and Lost Its Way | Allen Barra | September 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Border Patrol has already doubled in size since 2006, and has faced "real recruiting challenges," Alden notes.
In Tiny Ajo, Arizona, Border Patrol Agents Are Living the Dream | Terry Greene Sterling | September 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFive-year-old twins Holly and Poppy Alden were given the job as their father, Ben, sings in the chapel's choir.
Sophie Dazzles in Electric Blue at Royal's Easter Service | Tom Sykes | March 31, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThis one, in the imaginative hands of Gehry, the Mulleavys, and director Christopher Alden, is in a different realm altogether.
Don Giovanni in Los Angeles: Mozart Meets the Future | Isabel Wilkinson | May 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTEdward Alden is the Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
At midnight the Alden was plunging into creaming seas, her five masts thrummed by the blast.
Blow The Man Down | Holman DayThe captain intended to remain at the inlet tmtil a representative of the Alden's owners arrived.
Blow The Man Down | Holman DayI reckon that you and I as gents and master mariners are going to keep mum about her being aboard the Alden?
Blow The Man Down | Holman DayOn the morning of December 31, 1913, Cape Alden was abeam, and a strong wind swept down from the highlands.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas MawsonAt twelve oclock Draper conducted Alden, who was slightly intoxicated, to his own door, and left him there with the prisoner.
The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 1/2 | Camden Pelham
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