Word: journalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...this week's Army and Navy Journal, the Air Corps's Major General Henry H. Arnold passed on the following tale from a U. S. military observer in Great Britain...
...professional bondsman, softspoken, paunchy Ed McNew was quite an elusive figure to Knoxville citizens. For months before his crime the press had denounced his influence with judges and police, had tried in vain to get his picture. Then one night a Knoxville Journal photographer, lean, bald Howard Jones, cruised by Ed McNew's office, flashed a bulb, sped away with a snapshot...
...case came up, Ed McNew was wheeled into court on a stretcher. Swallowing copious drafts of a colored liquid out of a medicine bottle, he wept, swore that the sight of Jones's camera had caused him to suffer a "mental explosion," won an acquittal. Outraged, the Knoxville Journal reprinted Photographer Jones's damning picture, with the scornful legend scrawled across it: "Not guilty...
...this charge last year, he was convicted, sentenced to pay a fine, serve 60 days in the workhouse. Fortnight ago the Supreme Court of Tennessee handed down an opinion upholding the verdict. When Ed McNew marched off to serve his sentence, Photographer Jones was not present. Fired by the Journal a few months after he got his famed picture, Howard Jones was in Washington last week, covering Capitol Hill for Acme Newspictures...
...when the Wall Street Journal listed the profitmakers last week, steel fans got a surprise. First-place honors went neither to U. S. (fifth) nor Bethlehem (third), but to a steel company just two years old, Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. Up from $1.51 a ton in long's first nine months to $6.16 a ton this year were Allegheny-Ludlum's profits. Reason...