Word: newsboy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ridiculous, of course, to claim that being a newsboy of itself will give an all-rounded education, adequate either for success in vocational life or other activity," said Professor J. M. Brewer, Director of the Bureau of Vocational Guidance of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in answer to a statement made by Roger W. Babson, industrial statistician...
However poor Fox Theatres may appear to some people on a strictly investment basis, the greatest asset the company has, and one that should appeal to Fox patrons, is the management of William Fox.* Famed are the legends of his rise from Hungarian Jew newsboy to Long Island tycoon. Most significant of the factors in his story is that the Fox accomplishment has been singlehanded. Blustering, driving, he makes his own decisions, rapidly follows them out. Scorning most social customs, he enjoys golf despite a Kaiser-like arm, has thrice holed...
Charles A. McCulloch is chairman of Parmalee Co., whose buses take trunks and travelers to and fro between Chicago's many railroad stations. He is largely interested in both the Chicago and New York Yellow Cabs. A onetime newsboy, he took part (in 1915) in an Old Newsboys' Day, stood on a corner with his newspapers, sold them out swiftly by the expedient of crying, falsely, facetiously, "Doubleuxtree! Charlie Ross is found!" There is a Loop story that when the late J. Ogden Armour was in a state of acute financial difficulty, Mr. McCulloch offered him a check...
...general manager thus relieved is Max Annenberg, Number Three Man of the Patterson organization. Jewish-born, raised among the Irish of Chicago's First Ward, a newsboy early trained by the Chicago Tribune and for several years by Hearst papers, Max Annenberg learned all there was to know about circulation. When he returned to the Tribune in 1907 he said: "You make the newspaper. Ill sell it." His confidence in himself was shared by the newsdealers, whom he made his friends by every means at his command. Once, when they were crying for newspapers to sell during a Chicago...
Somebody heard little Walter Winchell sing in a Harlem cinema house when he was 13, found him a sing-song job in Gus Edwards' Newsboy Sextet. That year, "incorrigible," "stupid," he quit school. Soon he was touring with a "gel," applauded by a few and egged by many as he hoofed and sang. As his voice grew deeper, his singing grew worse. After being laid off, in Durham. N. C., he fed chickens on a boxcar to get back to Manhattan. During the War he was Sailor Winchell...