Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president of one Corpus Christi bank, largest stockholder of another. She is known as "The Savior of the Alamo" because she once put up $65,000 (later repaid by the State) to keep commercial structures away from Texas' shrine. By the time she married Newspaperman Hal Sevier in 1906, Clara Driscoll had written two novels (The Girl of La Gloria, In the Shadow of the Alamo) and a musical comedy (Mexicana)* which the Brothers Shubert produced on Broadway. Democratic National Committeewoman Clara Driscoll Sevier gave liberally to the 1932 Roosevelt-Garner campaign fund. Husband Hal Sevier became Franklin Roosevelt...
What took place in Manitoba Parliament Building was a newspaperman's nightmare-the awful thing that sometimes happens to newspapers that jump the gun. As Governor Stassen and his lady stepped into line to do their handshaking, a guard tapped the Governor on the shoulder, asked him to step aside. The Governor, his face as red as his hair, handed the guard a card. The guard sent it to Manitoba's Premier John Bracken, who was standing beside the King and Queen. Before the card reached the premier an aide took it, gave it one glance, laid...
Arthur Pegler's son Westbrook could tell many another story of his old man, for the elder Pegler is a living example of the oldtime newspaperman. He went to work for the London Daily Telegraph before he was 20 and quit the New York Daily Mirror year before last at 73. In 1884 he landed in New York from a freighter and headed west. For three years he rode the range in the Dakotas and Iowa, then covered the trial of a brewer for the murder of a Methodist temperance leader who had put over local option in Sioux...
Since his retirement Newspaperman Pegler has been living in Madison, Conn, and writing (on a double-keyboard Smith-Premier typewriter he acquired in 1893) a book of reminiscences tentatively entitled 50,000 Deadlines. His language, both written and spoken, reveals the origin of his son Westbrook's self-consciously polysyllabic style. Arthur Pegler finds people parsimonious instead of stingy, takes a libation in preference to a drink. He speaks of a publisher he once worked for as "that ineffable screw...
...George Horace Gallup, punditical pollster of public opinion, last week received at his home in Princeton, N. J. a postcard asking him to choose among the ten leading Presidential candidates. It was from Emil Edward Hurja, the sly, plump ex-newspaperman from Michigan and Alaska who used to dope elections expertly for the Democratic National Committee and now operates his own "political analyst" office in Washington, D. C. for business clients. Mr. Hurja quizzed 149,999 persons besides Dr. Gallup-some in every U. S. county-by postcard and personal interview. Leaders in his poll were Mr. Hurja...