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Word: pressmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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Roaring, grunting, shouting, squeaking, last week Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows opened its 1930 season in New York's Bronx Coliseum. Like the perennial sea serpent story and the yarn of the rat that nibbled the baby, Manhattan pressmen took their cue, played up Circus because Circus is always news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Peak Sneaking | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

Alert and sensational, the 60-year-old Graphic is edited by Alan John Bott. British pressmen can find a striking similarity between Editor Bott's journalistic policies and his Wartime activities. After having served in the Artillery and Royal Flying Corps in France and Mesopotamia, he entered the British espionage system. Captured by the Turks in 1918, he dramatically escaped across the Black Sea into Russia, whence he made his way through Bulgaria to Salonika. For his Turk-spying he was given the Military Cross with bar. Gleaning two bits of information where but one guarded bit grew before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Candid Camera | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

Grace Moore, sightly, luxuriating Metropolitan Opera soprano, went last week to Jellico, Tenn., to sing "I Love You Truly" and "At Dawning" at her sister Emily's wedding. On the way she confided to pressmen that in her sound film debut, recently arranged for, she would appear as the late, great, prudish Jenny Lind. Her second picture will probably be The Merry Widow, made jointly with Baritone Lawrence Mervil Tibbett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 3, 1930 | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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