Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sorry business," grumbled the Herald Tribune. "A Joseph Yea-and-Nay," snapped the Times. "He has not acted as if he were his own man; scarcely as if he knew his own mind. . . . The fact remains that the best hope of a successful attack upon Tammany lies in the Fusion ticket." The World-Telegram turned furiously on its former champion: "'A plague on ALL bosses!' becomes more than ever the slogan since the McKee decision...
...went into partnership with Sam Harris. They married the Nolan sisters of Boston, oldtime musicomedy favorites. They built houses next to each other at Great Neck, L. I. From then on the pinchbeck little kingdom which begins at Manhattan's Columbus Circle and ends at Herald Square was the private domain of George M. Cohan. He did things his own way. He has never felt at home in The Players Club on quiet Gramercy Square, but when the Friars made him a member he took a troupe of stars on tour, raised the money to build a new club...
...week he captured several towns-one named Moron-and beat his way steadily toward Havana. Terrified President Grau alternately threatened Bushwhacker Bias and parleyed with his son who popped in & out of Havana too often for correspondents to keep track of him. Veteran Tom Pettey of the New York Herald Tribune cabled: "Eventually an army of bearded Cubans will come out of the woods ready to begin a real rebellion...
...birthplace, where at 18 he was art reporter on the Star. Last week, aged 52, Ralph Renaud returned to Washington as managing editor of the Post. It is his sixth editorship in the last twelve years. In turn he was night managing editor of the New York Herald, assistant managing editor of the Tribune, managing editor of Cyrus Curtis' Evening Post, next of the World, then of the Post again. Few weeks ago a Post shakeup shook Managing Editor Renaud out (TIME, Sept. 18). Promptly he was hired by Eugene Meyer, new publisher of the Washington Post...
...weeks ago Esmond Harmsworth (of the Mail) cabled Lord Beaverbrook, then returning from Africa, that the battle of gifts had broken all bounds of sanity; the Mail would welcome peace negotiations. Lord Beaverbrook promptly cabled one of his Express managers to represent him. The conferences started hopefully. The Herald proposed a modification of the free gift schemes, the Express and Mail assented. But not Sir Walter Layton of the News-Chronicle, tag-ender of the fight. He would accept no truce that did not end the gift business completely. The war went on again. Next day the Mail offered twelve...