Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister Matsumasa Yonai after work done in her husband's office. Enthusiastic citizens of Durham, N. C. ("The Friendly City"), gave a dinner for American Tobacco President George Washington Hill, there to inspect his plant. One of the hosts, Publisher Carl C. Council arranged to have his Durham Herald City Editor Bob Mason interview President Hill after the festivities. City Editor Mason appeared, was given no interview, carried away only an impression of a flashily-dressed man in a rich brown suit, bright red tie and pocket handkerchief, cowboy hat. He returned to his office, wrote that President Hill...
Much credit for that World-Herald prosperity falls to Henry Doorly, who migrated from Barbados to Nebraska as a Union Pacific surveyor, married Margaret Hitchcock in 1903. As a reporter, Mr. Doorly kept his job only because he was the publisher's daughter's fiance, but he struck his stride as a want-ad salesman, quickly became advertising and then business manager. In nine years the paper was in the black and since 1912 has made money every year, multiplying enemies but losing no ground when it deserted staunch Senator Hitchcock's time-honored Democratic partisanship...
...last week the World-Herald was a 24-hour one-staff paper which kept each story up-to-the-minute but carried it through all six editions of the Morning World-Herald and all six of the Evening World-Herald. Now the World-Herald will have two separate staffs, will duplicate no items in the morning and evening editions. After the manner of the Des Moines Register & Tribune which has eyed the Omaha field and been envied in return by Publisher Doorly, the World-Herald will carry every important news service, the cream of specialized features...
Splitting the paper will add $500,000 a year to costs. Part of the increase will be salaries of the 40 Bee News employes (out of 400) who were absorbed by the World-Herald...
Success of the World-Herald's new era depends not only on conservative Publisher Doorly ("Don't spend something you haven't got") and his son Gilbert, the paper's assistant managing editor, but also upon Publisher Doorly's teammate, short, paunchy Pulitzer Prizewinner (1919) Editor Harvey Newbranch who writes lengthy, lucid, politically-effective editorials, dictates many of the paper's policies and has for a son-in-law Congressman Harry Buffington Coffee...