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Carvalho Solomon Solis was born on January 16, 1856 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. He was the youngest of four children (a daughter and three sons) of Sarah (Solis) and Solomon Nunes Carvalho. Both parents were of Sephardic Jewish descent. Carvalho grew up chiefly in New York City, to which the family moved shortly before or during the Civil War.
Carvalho was graduated from the City College of New York in 1877 with A. B.
After receiving his A. B. in 1877, Carvalho went to work as a reporter for the City News Association, studying law on the side. Admitted to the bar a few years later, he never practiced, but his legal studies served him in good stead. Presently he won a place on the New York Sun of Charles A. Dana, where his sleuthing on murder and suicide stories led to broader editorial responsibilities.
Shortly after the appearance of the Evening Sun in 1887, Joseph Pulitzer hired Carvalho to assist in launching the Evening World. His rise was rapid from then on. In 1892 Pulitzer summoned him to Paris, grilled him during a long carriage ride in the Bois de Boulogne, and sent him back to the World, then by far the largest newspaper enterprise in the country, with "absolute power over all expenditure in every department. " This power "S. S. ," as he signed himself, wielded shrewdly until the advent of William Randolph Hearst's Journal in 1895. To crush the one-cent newcomer, Pulitzer cut the World to that price at Carvalho's urging a move that hurt the paper without visible effect on its rival. During the difficult rate negotiations with advertisers that followed, Pulitzer curtailed Carvalho's authority. Bitterly offended, S. S. at once went over to Hearst. Within the Hearst organization, Carvalho came to be known as "Richelieu, " an accurate reflection both of his role and of his sharp-featured, almost saturnine, appearance, heightened by a Richelieu goatee and a pronounced limp. (A short left leg, probably the result of a club foot, caused him to stump about with a cane. ) When Hearst decided in the summer of 1899 to start a daily in Chicago in time for the 1900 presidential campaign, it was Carvalho who attended to the details.
He engineered the Hearst invasion of Boston in 1903, and later invasions of other cities. He was credited with devising the bewilderingly complex corporate structure of the Hearst publications as a means of dodging libel suits. "Carvalho really has charge of everything of importance in this institution, as you know, " Arthur Brisbane, who had followed him from the Sun to the World and thence to Hearst, wrote to a friend. For a time his domain extended to managing Hearst's personal finances. Pulitzer, sensing that the willingness of Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst to support her profligate son's ventures was related to her confidence in this canny manager, sought to win him back.
In August 1902 an emissary armed with an offer worth $50, 000 a year (and spurred by Pulitzer's promise of a year's pay if he succeeded) got to Carvalho, only to find him so enthusiastic about Hearst's political and journalistic hopes that the proposal could not even be put to him. "I do not want any personal glory, " a Pulitzer spy quoted S. S. as saying a little later, "but I do like the sense of power and authority as general manager, having that man's absolute trust, and knowing that in most details my opinions will prevail. " As surrogate for Pulitzer and then for Hearst, Carvalho signaled the rise of the professional in newspaper management. His knowledge of the pressroom, of advertising, circulation, libel law, newsprint procurement, and in particular his ceaseless quest for talented personnel made him, to Pulitzer, "worth any three men I have. " Illustrative of his prescience were private judgments, expressed long before they were apparent to others, that Pulitzer's sons would not be up to continuing the World, and that both titans of New York journalism might be eclipsed, one day, by the Times of Adolph Ochs. Hearst flattered S. S. with social attentions and such favors as a $25, 000 bonus in 1902, an expense-paid trip to Europe in 1903, a Stearns automobile, and valuable antiques. Carvalho responded with a dedication that amounted to self-abnegation. Regarded by rivals as crafty, even Machiavellian, he took care to remain in the shadows, once smashing the camera of a newsman who had snapped his picture.
Zealous in managing Hearst's affairs, he told a friend he was "the poorest possible manager of my own, " having neglected them from his World days on. Carvalho abruptly retired as general manager of the Hearst publications in November 1917, with no hint of discord. Others said later that he had quit because of a series of pro-German editorials in the Hearst papers. He nonetheless continued as a highly paid consultant of the organization for all his remaining years, presiding for many of them as chairman of its executive council.
This property, and a vast collection of Chinese porcelain accumulated by him over the years and worth many thousands, he disposed of at a fraction of their value; and the man who perhaps did more than anyone save Hearst himself to build the first great publishing empire left little when he died of arteriosclerosis at his home in Plainfield, N. J. , in 1942. His body was cremated.
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His left leg was shorter than the right one.
His wife was Helen Cusack, whom he had married in May 1895.
