Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been waved to the curb by a cop for blowing his horn too loudly in traffic. Becker, who was driving his wife home from the New York Yankees' victory dinner, had made an attempt to square things. He told the policeman: "Look, officer, I'm a working newspaperman. We were in a hurry. I'm sorry...
...Central Americans I have met feel a little sad about the lack of sizzle in their current revolutions. I found a doctor in Costa Rica, a newspaperman in Nicaragua and a customs official in Honduras this last trip who were all writing nostalgic biographies of William Walker, the Southern gentleman who used to make himself President of Nicaragua periodically and war upon everybody in sight. All three asked whether I knew of a good, reliable literary agent in New York...
...their efforts to elect a national commander. The kingmakers' choice for 1948 was James F. O'Neil, police chief of Manchester, N.H. (pop. 77,685), a greying, 49-year-old veteran of the Mexican Border campaign and of World War I. O'Neil, a onetime newspaperman and a Republican, also saw action in the South Pacific during World War II as a civilian assistant to John L. Sullivan, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. He was elected national commander-a post which pays $10,000 plus $40,000 in expense money-by acclamation...
Like Grady and preceding political heads, Killion took over the job with no previous shipping experience. The only nautical note that reporters could find in his record was the name of his birthplace-Steamboat Springs, Colo. An ex-newspaperman and chain-store lobbyist, he got his first political job through a long-standing friendship with California's New Dealing Governor Culbert Levy Olson...
...John C. H. Lee hitched up his belt smoothed his shirtfront, braced his shoulders and prepared yesterday to face an investigation of his command at Leghorn, Italy, after charges of varied abuses by a newspaperman...