Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Syracuse (N. Y.) evening Journal as a cub reporter, rose to be publisher in 1904, and reared the Journal from a weakling to the strongest newspaper in the city. In 1922 William Randolph Hearst moved into Syracuse, with the Telegram, in three years pushed Harvey Burrill into a corner and made him sell the Journal. Kept on as publisher by Hearst, Harvey Burrill lived with two consuming ambitions: 1) to celebrate the Journal's 100th anniversary, 2) to buy it back. Last Christmas Eve Publisher Burrill died, three months before the paper celebrated its 100th birthday with...
Tucked off in an inconspicuous corner of many newspapers is a little section called "Ten Years Ago Today," summarizing 24 hours of news of a decade ago and making them sound more remote than the wars of the Medes and the Persians. Because London newspapers are older than most, their memories are longer; the Daily Telegraph & Morning Post carries a department called "150 Years Ago" whose items are generally scarcely more interesting because of their greater antiquity. But in the past few weeks this section has begun to relate some strange doings in France. Thus, in a dispatch dated July...
Famed throughout Texas grew Pitchfork Smith's thunderous writings, his private battles, his oratorical eloquence. Old timers still quote from his street-corner oration on the death of John Barleycorn, the night before Prohibition took effect. One of his speeches ("When You Die, Will You Live Again?") was so highly esteemed by one P. S. Harris, president of Lucky Tiger Remedy Co., that Mr. Harris gave The Pitchfork a lifetime advertising contract, reprinted the speech and sent copies to every barbershop...
After 1:49 sec. of the fourth round, Referee Arthur Donovan untangled Galento from the ropes, awarded a technical knock out to Louis and dragged Galento to his corner. When he came to and had his fat face put back together with 23 stitches, the gallant little tavern-keeper set some kind of world's record by being just as unafraid of Louis as when he went into the ring. He still thought he could beat him. "I just got a little careless," he explained through lacerated lips. "That bum's way overrated. He's not even...
...twenties Jeidels, as boss of Germany's No. 1 investment bank, the Berliner Handels Gesellschaft. was one of Schacht's closest cronies. No chain store bank with a branch on every other street corner was the Handels Gesellschaft. Only the biggest of big businesses were its customers, and they went to it in Berlin...