Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Beshoar became chief of our Denver bureau four years ago, he was a highly competent newspaper reporter, who had learned his trade on Denver's Rocky Mountain News, the Des Moines Register and Tribune, and various Colorado dailies and weeklies. During the war he was regional chief of...
From barroom characters who had known Red Barker, Beshoar learned that there might be some trunks in storage. He got hold of the lawyer who was handling the estate. They picked up a locksmith and went to the warehouse. There, among a litter of old shoes, shirts, letters and miscellaneous...
A man who has served successfully under six Presidents and twelve Attorneys General (and got a new boss this week-see The Administration), Hoover is above all else an extraordinarily competent and careful bureaucrat who runs his own show and has learned to perfection the art of survival in Government...
In Prague, another correspondent for a free press got a revealing look at the ways of dictatorship. Stepping out of the door of his room at the Hotel Flora, scholarly Hans Tütsch of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, one of Switzerland's biggest newspapers, saw a...
Hooked. In Gaines, Pa., Raymond R. Cole boasted to friends about the 28-in. brown trout he had caught with his bare hands, learned too late from Justice of the Peace Roger Stevens that catching fish with the hands is illegal. Fine: $20.