Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some time Republican friends of mine . . . have suggested that I become a candidate for the United States Senate. . . . I have given the suggestion deep thought. I have concluded that my work as a newspaperman in Washington and my experience as a member of the legislature would enable me to be of service to the people of Massachusetts. I desire, therefore, to submit my candidacy to the people...
...asked me if I write all the articles I sign. That, Sir, is not a very complimentary question. . . . I am a professional newspaperman, Mr. Mallon, and I have been working at the newspaper business-not playing with it, but working at it-day & night for over 50 years. . . . Of course I write my signed articles, and many more that I do not sign. . . . I do not think it is such a trick to write. Anybody who can think can write...
Problem One: No. 1 Ethiopian newspaperman is Emperor Haile Selassie, editor-in-chief of the country's only paper. Because he works 20 hours a day. Conquering Lion of Judah is almost inaccessible to the Press. Occasional handouts from his official press bureau, written in French, contain scant news. Last week, for their chief source of information, correspondents had to resort to private "pipe-lines." Only thus, through expensive bribes, could they track down the hundreds of rumors which flashed daily through the streets of Addis Ababa...
...rugged individualism. In that section is the drowsy market town of Dothan (pop.: 16,000) and the combustible newspaper family of Hall which won the Dothan Eagle three generations ago in a draw poker game. Slim, red-headed Editor Julian Hall, 33, is a first-rate newspaperman, an Alabama "character," a humorist of distinction. Under the Dothan Eagle's heading, Editor Hall daily prints the Biblical quotation: For I Heard Them Say, "Let Us Go To Dothan."- Genesis 37: 17, referring to the village in ancient Palestine where Joseph's brothers stripped him of his coat of many...
...years that he has had sole control of the Times, Harry Chandler has proved himself not only a capable newspaperman manager, but also an inspired capitalist. Back in 1899 he launched a syndicate which bought up 862,000 acres in Lower California. He and his associates built Hollywood, founded a vast agricultural colony at Calexico which produced $18,000,000 worth of cotton in 1919. He owns a 281,000-acre ranch in Los Angeles and Kern Counties stocked with fine cattle, a 340,000-acre hunting preserve in Colorado, an interest in another 500,000-acre sporting preserve...