Word: bickel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HERBERT E. BICKEL...
...SaccoVanzetti Defense Committee. For a year he edited in Manhattan the Soviet Russia Pictorial. From this he graduated to assistant director of the New York office of TASS, then as now the official news agency of the Soviet State. Its director succeeded in interesting President Karl A. Bickel of United Press in Mr. Lyons, and when U. P. finally gave him the job of its Moscow correspondent Gene was as sure as his TASS colleagues that what he would send from Russia to be read daily by 30,000,000 U. S. readers would be angled "for the cause...
...week Agent Schaefer strolled into headquarters, encountered a stranger who, when questioned, gave him a dollar and told him to keep his mouth shut. Stealing out to the street, Agent Schaefer signaled a policeman, exclaimed: "I've just captured a criminal." In the shack the policeman arrested Owen Bickel, 17, a convict who had just escaped from two Federal officers...
...director of the Associated Press to fill the vacancy left by the death of Adolph Ochs. A golfer, tennist, yachtsman and air traveler in his spare time, Publisher Gannett showed he was not without dash when, in 1931, he dived off his yacht Widgeon to rescue Mrs. Karl Bickel, wife of the then president of United Press...
Unconfirmed but unsinkable last week was a rumor that Karl Bickel was wanted by the Scripps-Howard newspapers, whither two onetime U. P. presidents, Roy Wilson Howard and William W. Hawkins, had gone before...