The Philadelphia Record

[4] After Rodman Wanamaker died in 1928, the paper was bought by J. David Stern, owner of the Courier-Post in nearby Camden, New Jersey; he also moved the headquarters of the Record in November of that year from 917–919 Chestnut Street to the former Packard Motor Corporation Building at 317–319 N. Broad Street.

The two papers, whose buildings were within sight of each other, engaged in a "duel of keep-the-lights-on", in which their employees attempted to log longer workdays than their competitors.

[2] In the 1930s, as the competition stiffened between the Record and its primary morning competitor, the Inquirer, both increased their daily price to 3 cents (about $0.66 in inflation-adjusted terms).

During the late 1930s, the Record, a Democratic Party-aligned publication led by publisher J. David Stern, was seen as a voice for the executives in both the federal and state governments.

It ran stories that broke up bogus medical colleges,[4] stopped the sale of dead bodies, campaigned against Sunday blue laws, and recommended going off the gold standard.

[4] The Record made history in the early 1930s by hiring Orrin C. Evans as "the first black writer to cover general assignments for a mainstream white newspaper in the United States;"[9] as a staff writer, Evans covered many topics including segregation in the armed services during World War II.