Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reported Sonia Tamara, New York Herald Tribune correspondent: "The French have a picture of Hirt-a quiet, thoughtful-looking...
...after burning their stores. They were scattered in seven small groups. Belle was in the Strickland Hotel in the morning when she heard the first Confederate rifleshot. As she rushed upstairs she met a newspaper reporter coming down. This was a Mr. A. W. Clarke, of the New York Herald, who had been trying for some time to do what is described in books like this as "force his attentions upon her." "Great Heavens!" cried he, "what is the matter?" "Nothing to speak of," she said coldly, "only the Rebels are coming...
Everyone was sure that the minority included the representatives of the Patterson-McCormick papers (Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Washington Times-Herald). That very day, Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson's Times-Herald had printed a grisly spread: a page of photographs of American fighting dead, accompanied by a 1940 quotation from Franklin Roosevelt: "... I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars...
Next day, George DeWitt was no longer the Times-Herald's managing editor. Washington heard that he had told Cissie Patterson, "either that layout goes, or I go." The layout stayed...
...Fiscal Agent Myers spotted another Nebraska prospect. The SEC had ordered the dissolution of holding-company American Power & Light Co., which meant that it would have to sell its subsidiary Nebraska Power. Omaha's civic bigwigs, led by Henry Doorly, publisher of Omaha's World-Herald, and Nebraska Power officials (who hoped thus to keep their jobs) tried to buy. At first this looked easy. They had no trouble getting enabling legislation from the state legislature. But suddenly the power company opened fire on the legislation it had ostensibly supported...