Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard-boiled newsman, City Editor Bergener was skeptical. He recalled how he had sent a reporter to the residence of Mrs. Charles Long Cutter, Mrs. Lindbergh's grandmother, earlier in the day. The reporter had reported "No interview." Still, there was just a chance. The News had been courteous to Mrs. Lindbergh when she visited Cleveland just before her marriage. Perhaps the Lindberghs had remembered that, decided to return the courtesy. City Editor Bergener ordered another newsman to telephone the Cutter house. Amused, Col. Lindbergh answered, confirmed, amplified. Flying from Cleveland to Detroit, Col. Lindbergh furnished many another newspaper...
Mexican News Digest New York City Digester Oliver's request, both flattering and courteous, must be refused because NEWSCASTING (now given from 65 stations throughout the U. S.) is copyrighted by TIME...
...Baptist Church, Washington, D. C. The General Secretary, Dr. Bowlby, in a few remarks presented to the President printed documents containing the address of former President Coolidge, and other Presidents, on the value of the Christian Sabbath and Sunday. The President thanked the delegation for calling and made a courteous response, but it is the rule of the White House for those received by him not to quote the President, and, of course, we could not violate the rule...
...sometimes wish all the newspaper men I come in contact with were as well trained ... as the newspaper men in Washington. I still feel I am sufficiently of a public character that I do not like to give exclusive interviews to one newspaper. . . . Sometimes it is hard to be courteous to newspaper men. When I am courteous and talk to them at all, they want to print everything I say. If I tell them I have nothing to say, they then take some other method of finding a story...
...Greater Rockford. They got as far as stormy Greenland (TIME, Sept. 10). Two months ago Cramer backed Aviation Editor Wood into a Chicago hotel room and talked sport, adventure, glory at him. The trip would be safe and sure. They would fly from Chicago to Milwaukee, make a courteous gesture to Leif Ericsson's statue there, go across Canada to Cape Chidley at the northernmost tip of Labrador, skip over water but in sight of land to Cape Walsingham on Baffin Island, jump across Davis Strait to Mt. Evans, Greenland. From Mt. Evans they would cross the Greenland...