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...late lawyer-politician James Richard ("Jim") Gray, who married Mary Inman of the rich, aristocratic Inman clan, acquired the Journal in 1896 from Hoke Smith, twice Governor of Georgia, twice U. S. Senator, Secretary of the Interior under Cleveland. When President Gray died in 1917 John Cohen, a Journal newshawk since 1890, was put into the front office as active head of the paper but Widow Gray, as majority stockholder, remained chairman of the board and her two sons sat with...
...response of loyal customers last week warmed the heart of President Tily. He beamed when he read that his plan had been roundly approved by Manhattan's Macy's. Sitting at his desk in shirtsleeves, President Tily confided to a newshawk that the scheme pleased him because it was "ethically and morally right." Pious and high-minded son of a poverty-stricken English gentleman, he is a stanch believer in the ethics of NRA, once advocated a 3-hour working day. Doubtless he had in mind his early years at Strawbridge & Clothier where, at 14, he went...
...White House newshawks the President last week gave a gay dance at which his Daughter Anna and his new ex-newshawk Son-in-Law John Boettiger, his ex-Daughter-in-Law Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt and his Son James were present...
...news of a newsworthy Court session grew inconspicuous. The Chief Justice announced that he would read the Court's decision concerning four poulterers from Brooklyn. Donald Richberg visibly stiffened and grew pale. The Chief Justice began to read. Only a few sentences had left his mouth when a newshawk scribbled on a piece of paper: ''Can there be a new Recovery Law?", passed it to Donald Richberg. A moment later it came back, bearing the comment of the NIRB Acting Chairman-a huge question mark...
...angel's likeness, was supposed to cure that disease. But no textbook on pathology describes the ailment which Washingtonians sometimes refer to as ''the disease of Presidents." Neither gold coins nor Presidential touch cures it, for it is something that Presidents themselves contract. Last week as newshawks filed into a White House press conference they found Franklin Roosevelt looking rather brighter-eyed than usual. He began to talk with vigor, paused to laugh sharply, taking a shrewd thrust at his critics, then continued, making his points vigorously. He was giving newshawks better copy than he had given...