Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strickland Gillilan of Washington, D. C. is a veteran newspaperman, onetime president of American Press Humorists, best known as author of the line: "Off agin, on agin, gone agin, Finnigin...
...church in Smith Square he beamed with Alfred Duff Cooper as the crowds, still exuberant over the debate on Lloyd George's speech the day before (see p. 36), howled "Good old Duff! Good old Churchill!" Press photographers had a field day as Randolph, ex-Hearst newspaperman, now a subaltern with a mechanized unit, stood smiling with his blue-frocked bride. The ceremony was followed by a large buffet luncheon party at Admiralty House, complete with dukes and duchesses, where Winston downed two goblets of champagne, munched ice cream, commented lugubriously: "We must eat, we must...
...Onetime newspaperman (for two years Parliamentary correspondent for the Montreal Gazette), Banker MacDonnell is no amateur, no fuddy-duddy. After Munich last year he composed 36 lines of blank verse on Chamberlain. Excerpt: . . . the butt of every neutral gibe; And stupid in the eyes of arrogance. . . . He took a great, intrepid, lonely step, Biding his time amid the arctic night Of calumny and ridicule and fear, With little company...
...called Assistant Secretary Herbert Gaston: to coordinate the activities of Treasury's 10,578 Coast Guardsmen, 750 Customs agents, 250 Secret Service men, 250 income-tax inspectors, 1,250 alcohol inspectors. Tall, worn Mr. Gaston is an ex-newspaperman who lost out at 50 (when the old New York World expired), came back as Henry Morgenthau's trusted man Friday. Because he clamped down on departmental publicity in 1933, he rates as a stuffed shirt in the ribald, nude-daubed Treasury press room. But columnists and other "think piece" composers who value the long view applaud his emergence...
Father Maguire was just the man for such a dispute. A native of Ireland, a onetime student at Oxford, he went to the U. S. as a newspaperman to report a big Labor trial, became a Roman Catholic soon afterward. Seldom does he figure in the news, but midwestern Labor and employers account him their best and most active mediator. He helped settle the long, bloody Kohler of Kohler (plumbing) strike in Wisconsin five years ago, has calmed many another row before it reached the headlines. Now sixtyish, he is a husky six-footer with a lined, full face...