Word: ap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...native Nashville, he made the initial mistake, when he conceived the idea of a personal newspaper organ, of choosing Northerners to pilot the sheet. Among those he chose were Editor Herman Suter, a Pennsylvanian, whose only Southern viewpoint was gained while a football star at Sewanee: an ex-AP-er, Smith, whose Yankee tang was all-too-revealing, as managing editor: a chief editorial writer . . . who had a Harvard accent. I was a cub reporter, imported from Washington where I had worked with Suter. Even my Washington accent was too mildly Southern to fit in well in Nashville. Those were...
...AP's James Mills put it: "This is a crazy place. If we emerge with our sanity we'll be lucky...
...want anything in the papers about their being up here. And if any one of you fellows does write any thing about this, I'll see that it's not printed and I'll see that he's fired, see? I got five franchises in the AP, I take the UP, the INS and Universal Service and I'll see that anyone who prints this story gets fired...
...send out the story. Associated Press did suppress it. The others sent out abbreviated accounts by wire. Next morning not a word was printed in any Washington paper about what Sleuth Jurney and his party found on the eighth floor of the Shoreham Hotel. By afternoon, however, AP had had a change of heart, picked up the story from the version printed by the New York Post. At last Washington heard how Sergeant Jurney failed to find a 225-lb. needle in the Washington haystack but stumbled into a mare's nest...
Convening at Nancy last week members of the National Alliance for Increasing the Population of France, which recently cracked down on U. S. "Slave Dancer" Joan Warner (TIME, July 22), took ap proving note of Jose Laval's engagement, adopted a resolution of "hope that after her marriage to Count René de Chambrun she will have many children...