Word: ap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instead of through the regular channels of a wire service. For instance: on Decoration Day in the town of Walsenburg, Colo., 50 mi. south of Pueblo, Editor John B. Kirkpatrick of the World & Independent wired Associated Press in Denver that he wanted coverage of the Indianapolis automobile races. Presently AP wired its reply: WILL OVERHEAD WINNER OF INDIANAPOLIS RACES. Editor Kirkpatrick jumped with excitement. An hour later the World & Independent's 1,750 readers puzzled over an 8-column streamer...
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP) - Will Overhead won the Indianapolis Memorial Day race today. At the 250 mile post Babe Stapp was leading the string of roaring cars, but gave way to Overhead on the last half of the 500 mile grind...
...Jesus Tower are inscriptions in Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic. Not with out tact must the Y. M. C. A. be, for Jerusalem seethes with 52,000 Jews, 19,000 Moslems, 19,000 assorted Christians. Fortnight ago when Lord Allenby ap peared in Jerusalem, there were angry mutterings in Arab newspapers. Veiled Moslem women paraded making bitter speeches. To them it seemed that the Y. M. C. A. planned to proselytize with its fine new building. But they were mis taken. And other Jerusalemites were less truculent because they had already seen how the Y. M. C. A. operates...
...late World at $500,000. would have lapsed automatically unless utilized. Hence Scripps-Howard published the Repository, sold at least one copy daily. It was a four-page sheet consisting chiefly of house advertisements, with one page of news, always including at least one story from the AP night wire. The same editorial was left standing for about a year, then was replaced by comics, fashion sketches. Total cost to Scripps-Howard, including the annual AP assessment: $50,000 a year. Last week Scripps-Howard concluded that the membership was no longer worth supporting, let it die with the Repository...
...AP & INS lists included also Amelia Earhart Putnam's flight. Al Capone's imprisonment...