Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joseph Ball, wife of Minnesota's young Senator, described her husband's career as a newspaperman: "He was a damn good reporter-Ooops! I shouldn't have said that...
...used to write Hollywood movie scripts at $2.750 a week. Before that, as managing editor of the old New York American, he liked to lean back in his editorial chair and play an accordion to drown out the roaring of the Hearst press. Earlier still, as a wild young newspaperman in Denver, he toted firearms in a city room, fell in love, married, wore Jack Dempsey's cinnamon-brown, pearl-buttoned overcoat on his honeymoon...
...Journalists in the USSR have an inner censorship," he said. "We realize that our position is like the position of of other countries at war. Our people are united. We are as positive of our course as you were at Pearl Harbor. It is our newspaperman's credo to support his country despite what he thinks...
...Crime in 1904, once said that he'd like to see a straight news sheet in New York City-- one carrying all the news but no editorials. In retrospect, the Service News provided a testing ground for that project, and the test wasn't entirely successful. Practically any newspaperman will admit that complete impartiality is unattainable, and a few instances will illustrate that the Service News, occassionally slipped off its tight-rope...
...column of trivia on Chapin's desk. He got no thanks, and Chapin growled when he okayed Bee's expense account for $3 for the horse & rig, but his job was saved. He still thinks Chapin was a great man, "but very unscrupulous. He made a newspaperman out of me by keeping me scared all the time...