Word: kiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What a shortstop is to a pitcher, what a tail is to a kite, what a pin is to a pinwheel -Bill Hawkins is to Roy Howard. In 1906 when Roy Howard, a brash boy wonder two years off the Cincinnati Post, was made New York manager of the brand new Scripps' Publishers' Press Association at $50 a week (which he agreed to plough back for stock), his first appointee was Bill Hawkins, out of Springfield, Mo. by way of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Next year reorganization carried them into the United Press together. There for 13 years...
...everyone knew Senator Vandenberg's stipulation to the Landonites. He, who had had his doubts even about wanting the Presidential nomination before 1940, would be the tail to their 1936 kite only if the Convention drafted him by acclamation. John Hamilton thought that could be done and long after everyone else went to bed that night he and his lieutenants were buzzing around lining up the necessary acclaim. By about 2:30 a. m. they thought they had things fixed. By that time Senator Vandenberg had cut off his telephone. No one thought to go bang on his door...
...year Publisher Boddy has boosted the Post-Record's circulation from 43,000 to an alltime high of 81,000, expects to kite it still further as a tabloid. High-voiced, quick-moving, affable, he has a huge estate with electrically-lighted waterfalls in Alta Canyada, Calif., is an efficient horseman, pistol shot and fisherman. He can look ahead to many a Boddy publishing year not only because he is 42 but because his two sons Robert, 16, and Calvin, 14, pitch into newspaper chores with vim and ambition when they go home on vacation from San Diego Army...
...Government Party or Kuomintang, it might be possible to face the realities of China and Japan squarely, or at least as squarely as Oriental minds can face anything. The reality is that a policy of Asiatic cooperation, even with vast China flying for some years as the kite on Japan's string, might get the Orient somewhere a great deal faster than it has ever got before...
...have their group photograph taken last week the militant galaxy took their places on the steps of Kuomintang Party Headquarters with Dictator Chiang, Dummy President Lin Sen and Premier Wang Ching-wei. Among Chinese politicians the Premier rated last week as the most ardent and ablest exponent of the kite & string foreign policy for China and he was not only Premier but also Foreign Minister...