Word: guys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GUY T. VISKNISKKI...
Doctor Rexford Guy Tugwell proved that his capacity for winning approval for the New Deal was in inverse ratio to his capacity for getting public attention. He was promoted to Under Secretary of Agriculture and then muzzled...
...stained since he was 15, Guy Viskniskki first worked at 25? a week for the editor of a smalltown Illinois paper. He attended Swarthmore College, served in the Spanish-American War. In the World War he helped start the A. E. F.'s Stars & Stripes. After eight more years in the newspaper and syndicate business, he landed with Hearst in 1926 as business manager of the Washington Times. Then began his "wrecking crew" fame. From Hearstpaper to Hearstpaper he went, receiving the title of business manager in each place while he worked to change red ink to black...
Like the exterminator-man. Col. Guy T. Viskniskki (who hates to see his name misspelled) has an unpleasant occupation which doubtless achieves worthwhile results. Executives call him an efficiency expert. Embittered newshawks call him the ''wrecking crew." Both names displease him, even if they are partially accurate. He doctors ailing newspapers, trimming payrolls with the steely detachment of a surgeon. He is partly bald, fiftyish, looks something like a pelican...
...wife Anna and their infant son Mannfried have been living in a Flemington boarding house ever since he was extradited from New York. Townsfolk nod kindly to her as she walks down the main street with her son. His jailers also say that Bruno is "a nice guy." But ever since he has been in the Flemington cell, hard electric lights have burned on Hauptmann day & night while three guards have stood outside his cell, two inside. None has uttered a word. This modification of the common police practice of the ''gold-fish bowl" has not budged Hauptmann...