Word: irvin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bounce from Pulitzer's St. Louis Post-Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune to the New York Herald before settling down in 1909 as a reporter for the World. There he soon became one of the best reporters in a Manhattan galaxy of byliners that included Irvin Cobb. Frank Ward O'Malley and Richard Harding Davis. Herbert Swope's unique asset: overwhelming personal charm. Said an envious New York Telegraph reporter: "He finds out who is the principal source of information, and proceeds to fascinate that person. He will not let the victim go until he has coughed...
Citation: "Noted throughout his career for undertaking and solving problems deemed insolvable by many. . . " Chapman College Leslie LeRoy Irvin, inventor of the rip-cord-opened parachute LL.D...
...revolt was uncoordinated, lacked funds and headquarters, had as its leader a little-known rank-and-filer named Don Rarick, 37, for 19 years a worker at U.S. Steel's Irvin works. A fortnight ago Rarick was also named to head the slate that will oppose the McDonald team in the union-wide elections next February. Said Rarick last week: "I dare McDonald to show that he's got as many steelworkers behind...
Masked Intention. In Akron, when ten patrolmen surrounded him in a grocery after a hurry-up call from the proprietor, Irvin Harris untied a handkerchief from his swollen face, explained that he wore it because all his teeth had been pulled the day before and his jaw hurt...
...they had any answer to the opposition's arguments, no Liberals stirred to present them. Instead of debating details, Liberal speakers rose one after the other to deliver blanket endorsements of the budget. "This is a good budget," said Liberal Irvin Studer, in a speech that was typical of the Liberal line in the debate. "This government has proved in the past, in the present, and will in the future, that there is no end to good government...