Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quit now," one newspaperman said with a note of desperation, "And now that we're in, we will fight to the bitter end--right down to the last test-tube in our possession...
...either group Hearst had ordered a newsy, nosy, plain-speaking society column called "Artie Angeleno Observes." Hearst's San Francisco Examiner already had a "Fred die Francisco." Both were patterned after the New York Journal-American's long standing "Cholly Knickerbocker." In Los Angeles, Hearst picked a newspaperman, and a social unknown at that...
During the competition candidates will be assigned many different tasks including the traditional jobs of running copy and collecting bills. They will familiarize themselves with the newspaperman's special lingo, and in the end will be elected on the basis of their ingenuity creativeness, and all-around ability...
...Austria's Communist Boss Ernst Fischer and, until he was suspended last week, deputy editor of Vienna's Communist-dominated newspaper New Austria. Reason: in the midst of a vigorous Communist campaign against "former Nazis" allegedly working for Austria's Socialists and Christian Democrats, untractable Socialist newspaperman Oskar Pollack discovered that Communist Heinz was himself a former Nazi...
...narrator is Jack Burden, a newspaperman and an angry fellow full of the sardonic lingo of the pressroom. The story he unreels with a series of flashbacks and asides is the story of Willie Stark, a poor farmer's awkward, hulking son from Mason City. Willie got his political start at home as county treasurer. He was honest, and that was why a Democratic faction in the state picked him up in the backwoods in 1926 and ran him in the primary for governor...