Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took to newspaper work, liked it, never lacked for a good job thereafter. He reported first for the Cleveland Press, worked on the Hearstian New York Evening Journal, was Eastern manager of Newspaper Enterprise Association. In 1912 he helped organize United Press, then edited the Philadelphia News-Post and was proud to be jailed overnight on a criminal libel charge brought and dropped by a hoodlum politician. During the War, Editor Pew worked in the War Department's News Bureau, where he originated the U. S. system of publishing casualty lists in full...
...Editor & Publisher, which he joined in 1924 after resigning from the Hearstian International News Service "on principle," Editor Pew found a resounding forum for his views. Among his antipathies is Gossip Columnist Walter Winchell, who tried to make capital of the Philadelphia jailing and was ringingly denounced by Editor Pew as: "A Broadway scavenger ... a physical coward ... a journalistic gangster...
Interviewing himself in "Shop Talk At Thirty," Marlen Pew gave his own ideas on what a newspaper should be: "Publish more news, more expertly written. . . . Make every word count, have some decent respect for the time of the reader, and publish more and better news pictures and cartoons. . . . Tell a common story and quit-do not repeat the facts three times, in introduction, description and interview. ... Be natural, direct, wholesome, alert. Work for the readers, busy people who are depending on you to tell them 'what's doing.' See the beauty in life as well...
First rebuttal came from the Journal's Promotion Editor Wallace W. ("Brownie") Rowland, who had worked on the paper 40 years, once had charge of the carrier pigeons used to carry spot news copy. Mr. Rowland, who received $25,000 in Mrs. Nieman's will, said he had seen Mrs. Nieman do only a "little drinking," that her extreme household thrift was for the "benefit of the help." Questioned as to why Mrs. Nieman passed over Wisconsin colleges to make a big gift to Harvard, Mr. Rowland averred that Mrs. Nieman simply "did not like Marquette," and that...
...same day on the front page of the Philadelphia Record appeared a story which Radio Weekly declared ''bore intimations of the most sensational news, in all likelihood, that has ever broken the macabre radio industry." The news was that A. (for Arthur) Atwater Kent was getting out of radio for good. Laconic, the official announcement was merely that "Atwater Kent Manufacturing Co. has decided to be less active in radio lines and has so informed its distributors." But it was learned that all the company's radio production had ceased, that sales were solely from sets...