Word: accents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under zestful Melville Elijah Stone for 25 years, the accent of AP was on straight news. But because of the changing needs of its member newspapers AP gradually added comics, comment, cookery, other "features." One offering, used regularly by over 100 of the 1,400 dailies, is "Washington Daybook," launched eight years ago under General Manager Kent Cooper's dictum that it should not be ''spontaneous news, but clean anecdote, humor and history." Fourteen months ago AP's feature chief, Hearst-trained William T. McCleery, assigned Preston Grover to apply his salty Utah touch to this...
...chemistry in Germany, was at War for four years in the French artillery, worked in various laboratories in France and England. In 1932 he joined Eldorado Mines, supervising the transportation and installation of all equipment for the Canadian refining plant. Marcel Pochon speaks fairly good English with a strong accent, wears modish clothes, tells humorous frontier anecdotes with a grave face...
...assistant editor of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express. A great-grandfather designed London's National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, hobnobbed with the Duke of Wellington and the famed painters and authors of that day. Mr. Wilkins especially likes Southerners' drip coffee and their accent...
...intolerant, Harry Bridges is scornful of the press, both Right and Left. Even when cornered for an interview, he ignores any questions which he does not choose to answer, punctuates his own points with jerks of his knotted longshoreman's arms. He used to have a pronounced Australian accent (an exaggerated Cockney) but has now lost most of it, speaking in a soft, low, emphatic voice. On the platform he is restrained, though he sometimes stops, tosses back his brown hair, pushing his beak forward as if into the wind at sea on lookout. He demonstrated his spellbinding platform...
...privately-owned cream & yellow Plymouth cab in front of Washington's Dodge Hotel when he spied a pair coming down the steps. Driver Carnaggio asked if he could take them anywhere. "How does one go about seeing the U. S.?" asked the man, with a British accent...