Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year and a half ago Howard Kahn, a scrappy, oldtime newspaperman who served in the War with the French Army and has been editor of the St. Paul Daily News for the past 16 years, brought half a dozen furloughed Department of Justice operatives to town to expose malfeasance in the St. Paul police force. There was a grand jury hearing, followed by a whitewash delivered over the radio by the foreman just as the late John Dillinger was shooting his way out of a local apartment house. But the Daily News's agitation last year helped St. Paul...
...Gallipolis hangs a wrought-iron sign, silhouetting a likeness of McIntyre at a typewriter. A legend beneath reads: "Boyhood home of O. O. McIntyre. Famous newspaperman and now writer of New York Day By Day." The Gallipolis Tribune proudly runs his column on the front page...
Sixteen years ago a U. S. newspaperman, John Reed, wrote the first eyewitness account in English of Russia's Bolshevik revolution, in Ten Days that Shook the World. Brief, brisk, emphatically pro-Bolshevik, Reed's account won Lenin's approval, earned its author burial space in Moscow's place of honor in the Red Square, has served as a valuable source book for historians ever since. Last week another U. S. newspaperman, William Henry Chamberlin, for ten years Russian correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, offered the first definitive history of the turbulent period, including...
...reverently followed the remains of Louis Wiley out of Manhattan's Temple Emanu-El last week, few felt the rabbi's eulogy was unduly exaggerated. For Louis Wiley, the undersized, dynamic and somewhat pompous business manager of the New York Times, was not only an extraordinary newspaperman but one of the kindliest individuals his profession ever produced...
...Carniola. Peter Gale (whose immigrant grandfather was called Galé) shared a pup-tent with Adamic in the A. E. F. until he was wounded and gassed. Nine years after the War Adamic met Peter again, in Los Angeles. Peter was apparently a typical drifter, nervous, unsettled, unhappy, a newspaperman who never stayed in one place more than a few months. Gradually he got Peter's story out of him. Peter's brother, Andy, was the "front" for the Los Angeles beer racket and one of Capone's lieutenants. A goodhearted, not too brainy racketeer, he supported...