Word: lawson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victor Lawson sold the Record, made Charles Dennis chief editorial writer and manager of foreign news for his evening paper, the Daily News. Lawson and Dennis made the News's foreign service, for a time, the best in the U. S. When Lawson and Dennis started, most foreign news reached Chicago second-hand by way of London. Dennis trained a staff of correspondents, sent them all over the world...
...beggar smuggled their stories to Tientsin. In 1904, the News had a reporter traveling with Kuroki's Army through Manchuria. When Japan silenced the wireless on the London Times's dispatch boat, the News was left with the only working press craft in the Yellow Sea. Victor Lawson was more concerned with making the News a good paper than running up his circulation, but the News grew with its city...
...Stelzle's argument was answered by Lawson Purdy, tax expert and comptroller of rich old Trinity, which by its 200-year old charter not only possesses valuable (and taxable) business and tenement properties but also has a right to all whales washed up on the lower West shore of Manhattan Island. Mr. Purdy argued that if church property were taxed its value would at once shrink because assessment is based upon market value. The market value of St. Patrick's Cathedral would be nothing because no one could afford it. Furthermore, said Mr. Purdy, the value of such...
Although Harvard had most of the chances to score during the first period, it was Princeton that made the only two scores. A Harvard attack was broken up deep in Princeton territory and a quick return rush by Lawson, and a pass to Savage netted the first tally at 13.19 as deGive was drawn out of the net. Duffey was sent to the penalty box for tripping, two minutes later, and the Tigers repeated the performance this time using Poole and Kammer...
...summary: HARVARD PRINCETON Hasler, Kirkland, Ware, l.w. r.w., A. Lane, Lawson, Tiers Dowey, Duffey, c. c., Kammer, Savage Beale, Callaway, Lincoln, r.w. l.w., Poole, Willis Watts, F. Lane, Choate, l.d. r.d., Gardener, A. Lane Gleason, Dow, r.d. l.d., Holsapple, Lea deGive, g. g., Thouren First period goals: Savage...