Word: herald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came back to Grand Rapids as a cub reporter on the Herald...
Hanging around City Hall, he got to know local politicians. One of his heroes was William Alden Smith, an old-fashioned politico with a sugar-scoop coat and flowing black bow tie, who was soon to become U.S. Senator. In 1907, Smith bought the Herald. The morning after his purchase he walked into the office and found young Arthur Vandenberg sitting in the editor's chair. "I'm here to stay," said Reporter Vandenberg. He stayed - for 21 years...
...York Herald Tribune dropped all display advertising so that it could use the newsprint thus saved to print 100,000 extra copies. Many other newspapers did the same. The San Francisco Chronicle went farther, dropping all chatty columns, women's features, etc. PM omitted its regular Sunday picture of a pin-up girl. Everywhere newspapers broke out their 260-and 300-point wood-block headlines (known irreverently to printers as the "Second Coming" type). And even the New Deal-hating Chicago Tribune used a journalistic symbol for mourning, familiar in Lincoln's day: "turning the rules" so that...
...books that damned Tories as appeasers at best, fascists at worst. Beaverbrook put him out to pasture, in the lush acres of his morning paper, the Daily Express (circulation: 3,000,000). Eight months later, Foot booted his ?3,000 job, went to work for the Laborite Daily Herald...
...this sour-graping, he was soundly whacked. The Republican New York Herald Tribune growled that his criticism "is a feeble reason for his failure to join the framers of the charter." The conservative Wall Street Journal chimed in: "Mr. Mosher says the statement of principles is premature. We do not agree...