Word: dealey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the 52 years George Bannerman Dealey has worked for and run the Dallas News (a.m.) and Journal (p.m..), those newspapers have taken more than one unpopular but righteous stand. They were against the Ku Klux Klan during its heyday in Texas in the early 19205. They bucked demagogic Governor "Jim" Ferguson. They refused to take oil promotion advertising during the Burkburnett, Ranger, Eastland and East Texas booms. Last week, seven days after the Legislature outlawed all forms of race-track betting in Texas, Publisher Dealey, now 77, again placed his papers in the position of doing the virtuous thing...
...amiable old paternalist who was immensely pleased when his editorial workers recently informed him that they wanted him and not the Newspaper Guild to be their sole bargaining agent, Publisher Dealey has his plant plastered with pictures of the Alamo's Davy Crockett, with that hero's motto: BE SURE YOU'RE RIGHT. THEN GO AHEAD...
Decision to build the mill was made at a meeting called in his home town by Vice President Ted Dealey of the Dallas News and Journal. Here Publisher James Geddes Stahlman of the Nashville Banner, chairman of the Southern Newspaper Publishers' newsprint committee, told his fellows that the proposed mill could start shipping an annual 45,000 tons of paper Jan. 1, 1938. Assembled publishers from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas promptly raised $5,000,000 to build the mill, ordered its entire output. Present price of newsprint is $45 a ton. Southern publishers hope their slash pine mill...
...High School who did 96 words a minute. Nevertheless the University of Washington girls' performances helped their professor of education, Dr. August Dvorak, toward fortune. For Dr. Dvorak invented the arrangement of letters and symbols on the typewriter keyboards with which his students won at Chicago. The Dvorak-Dealey* Simplified Keyboard attempts 1) to make both hands do equal amounts of work while typing and 2) to prevent fingers interfering with one another. For example, by study of 35 million digraphs (two-letter combinations) in English words, Professor Dvorak & aides found that 10½ million must be stroked...
...Dealey, because Dr. Dvorak's brother-in-law, Professor William Learned Dealey, cooperated in the research which led to the keyboard arrangement. †Designed in 1868 by the late Christopher Latham Sholes. **Ten words most commonly misspelled by stenographers (according to Adelaide B. Hakes. technical supervisor of Katharine Gibbs School in Manhattan): procedure; lose; benefited; accommodate; adviser; occurrence; supersede; all right; principal; affect...