Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over two hours the scoop hunter listened through the door, dejected over the fact that he couldn't print what he heard. One of the things that impressed him was: "The telephone bill along of the Demorcratic Committee in Washington is $50,000 a year...
Thus ran sport-page headlines last April when Baseball Umpire Bill Stewart, in his first year as manager of a hockey team, flew his limp-winged Chicago Black Hawks to a Stanley Cup victory. Last week, on the third day of 1939, the Miracle Man of 1938 was given the bum's rush...
Shoved off the Black Hawks bench because his 1938 world champions were in fourth place, with only eight victories in 21 games this season (a record that still was better than the Hawks had last year at this time), short, squat Bill Stewart was replaced by two men: his crack forward, Paul Thompson (brother of famed Goalie Tiny Thompson of the Detroit Red Wings), and a onetime Hawk named Carl Voss...
...fiery little Bill Stewart, a baseball umpire for six years, was flabbergasted at being sent to the showers in the middle of the second inning. Said he: "I would have lasted longer if I hadn't talked back...
Dropping the first three light weight beats, the wrestlers were never able to overcome the Bengal lead in spite of the fact Bill Daughaday and "Chief" Boston were able to throw their opponents. Throughout, the matches were closely contested, and three of them extended into overtime...