Word: herald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Passport Problem. As a professional newsman. Parrish was fired from three jobs, "and never was happy until I became my own boss." The New York Herald 'Tribune's City Editor Stanley
...makes entertaining comments. But he isn't around very much so far as newspapermen go." He maintained that little things have been going very wrong in Stevenson's campaign which more efficient organization could easily eliminate. And the next day a more serious column appeared in the New York Herald Tribune dispelling the initial August optimism that surrounded the announcement of Stevenson's organizational plans...
...climax as the Dodgers and Braves fought it out for the National League pennant (see SPORT). Such was the objection of Ebbets Field to Umpire Vic Delmore when he made a bad call on Catcher Campanella at second base that there came a revelation, to hear the New York Herald Tribune's Columnist Red Smith tell it, "that at least 34,022 people in Brooklyn have white handkerchiefs, a fact previously unsuspected." Such was the absorption of Milwaukee in the Braves that the arrival there of Campaigner Adlai Stevenson to deliver a nationwide TV speech was all but ignored...
...damned the U.S. businessman's remarks as "unwarranted nonsense," and the National Union of Manufacturers loftily announced that "we have no evidence which would support his criticism." But in the subsequent wave of second thoughts, Rogers found champions among the British themselves. His criticism, said the Laborite Daily Herald, "is a scathing indictment and a challenge. Mr. Rogers knows British industry, and if it is anything like as bad as he says, it is a poor outlook unless we waken up soon." "Our declining share in the world market," the Conservative Daily Telegraph added, "is warning enough against treating...
...Stauffer cubbed on the Emporia Gazette, became a reporter and copyreader on the Kansas City Star, where he worked five years. Then in 1915 he plunked his savings into the purchase of two struggling weeklies in Peabody, Kans., merging them into the successful Gazette-Herald. But Stauffer's greatest coup in Peabody was to buy land options at the going rate of $1 an acre. When oil was struck, some of the $1 options were worth $500, and by 1924 Stauffer had a kitty of at least $100,000 to buy newspapers in earnest. Primarily a businessman, Publisher Stauffer...