Word: newsboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the Hopes migrated to Cleveland. There Bob ran around with a bunch of little toughies, filching apples from pushcarts, racking pool balls, selling papers (legend has it that John D. Rockefeller Sr. once rebuked Newsboy Hope for offering to trust him). He was also a choirboy until "in the middle of a lovely solo, my voice changed...
...cannot be passed off with a tolerant shrug. Last Monday the City Council, by unanimous vote, moved that "the sale, display, or distribution on the streets of the City of Boston of all newspapers published out of the state of Massachusetts be prohibited" unless the news dealer or individual newsboy peddling said papers lays ten dollars on the line for a permit from the City Clerk...
...decided not only that they would ignore this crimp in their staff, but they would also assert their displeasure in no uncertain terms. The driver of a Social Justice truck, Joseph McDonald, kicked to pieces Traveler photographer Hansen's camera when he tried to take a picture of a newsboy handing out the magazine. Hansen asserts that a Boston policeman held him while McDonald kicked, and it is definitely known that the officer witnessed the destruction...
...Parish, who got eleven Seattle businessmen to put up the money. As manager of the Jacksonville (Fla.) Journal since 1937, he boosted that paper's circulation from 39,000 to 55,000. Parish's happiest days had been spent on the Seattle Star, where he rose from newsboy to president and general manager of the Scripps-Canfield chain. In the days before the Scripps boys began meddling with the Star, he had built up the best circulation in the State...
...trying" to get the Sun, while roadmen report large bundles not even opened. Suburban Chicago custom is to deliver papers at the back door. The Sun is left, when it is left at all, at the front door. When one Winnetka housewife asked for back-door delivery, the newsboy said he couldn't do it because the back stoop belonged to the Tribune...