Word: scoops
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...obscure Newsman Harden gave the New York World a scoop on the battle of Manila Bay. Last week Mr. Harden, now a potent New York banker (James B. Colgate & Co.), was saddened by the ignominy in store for old battleship Olympia...
...Joseph Gunay, Robert Schmidt, Edward Paulsen, Nick Swansen), 45, 5 ft. 7 in., 133 lb., blue eyes, foreign accent, for grand larceny. A one-job-a-year man he hires out through an agency as a window-washer steals as much as $50,000 worth of jewelry at a scoop. Crime is his only vocation. Police want him for a $30,000 "window-washing" robbery last year...
...roads included in the Baltimore & Ohio's plan for a greater and longer B. & O. (TIME, March 4). Just as the Canton purchase was virtually a slice carved out of B. & O.'s own backyard, so the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton seemed to be another Penn scoop...
Newspapers throughout the state had carried the news that Scarlet Sister Mary was too scarlet for Gaffney. Now they carried the story that the Cherokee Times had a scarlet serial. And next-great "scoop" for the Cherokee Times!-they carried news that Scarlet Sister Mary had won the Pulitzer Prize for 1928 as best U. S. novel of the year (TIME...
...Senate, claiming the right to publish executive session proceedings, implying that the United Press report of the Lenroot poll was not accurate. The only inaccuracy formally complained of had to do with two absent Senators. Nevertheless the A. P., in self defense, kept belittling its rival's scoop. This not-very-sporting A. P. letter brought mumbles of derision from Senators...