Word: bickel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Karl August Bickel has been gathering and selling news, for twelve of those years as the able, ubiquitous president of United Press. Newsgathering is a tough job and Karl Bickel was determined not to die in harness. Said he once: "This is a young man's business. No man over 50 has the right to be the active head of a press association." Last year he began to ail and last week, at the age of 53, he resigned the U. P.'s presidency...
Into his place bounded hard-driving Hugh Baillie, executive vice president. Lean, bristle-haired, Hugh Baillie talks like a drill sergeant, moves like a football halfback. For a year he has shouldered most of the presidential responsibilities at U. P.'s Manhattan headquarters. By Karl Bickel's age formula. President Baillie's tenure should be six years...
Transradio Press Service. If UP's Karl Bickel or AP's Kent Cooper should walk into the Transradio office in Manhattan, he could plant himself in the news editor's chair, roll up his sleeves and run the show with practically no coaching. With its news editors, rewrite men and teletype operators, the place looks, sounds, smells and works like a wire service office in any U. S. city. But there is an invisible difference: The teletyped news reports flash cross-country not into newspaper offices but into 50 broadcasting stations...
After squabbling bitterly for almost a year over news-broadcasting, the press and the radio last week reached an armistice. Its basis was a plan suggested a month ago after Manhattan conferences between Presidents Paley of Columbia Broadcasting and Aylesworth of NBC, Roy W. Howard, Karl A. Bickel of United Press and representatives for AP and INS. Important points...
...Bickel, Frank B. Noyes, John C. Martin. Chief speaker was to be Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Chicago Tribune...