Word: newshawked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Talcott Williams Powell, 36, tenacious newshawk whose Veteran Relief series won the New York World-Telegram a 1932 Pulitzer Award, explorer, onetime (1933~35) editor of the Indianapolis Times; after an appendectomy; in Greenwich, Conn...
...Herbert Samuel Holt, testy, 81-year-old Chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada. An Irishman from Dublin, he got his start in Canadian Pacific Ry., made a fortune in Montreal utilities, another fortune in textiles. Hardboiled, hot tempered, hobbyless, he has been known to pick up an inquisitive newshawk, toss him bodily downstairs...
...opinion of many a Washington newshawk last week the New Deal lost one of its ablest pressagents when Henry West Suydam, Special Executive Assistant to Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings, resigned to write political articles and editorials for the Newark News. A onetime registered Republican, Henry Suydam joined Mr. Cummings' staff in 1934, brought about an immediate improvement in his principal's "press." No snowstorm of mimeographed releases blew from Mr. Suydam's office, but news-leads which Washington correspondents were usually glad...
...then, again, in view of Hispano-Suiza and the fashionable aviator who flies this, "the swankiest instrument of death"; not to mention the source of this amazing news-item-usually well-posted TIME, it seems almost a sacrilege to suggest that TIME had its leg pulled by an overenthusiastic newshawk, or fell victim to the ways...
...Lewis and his C. I. O. Said he: "So far as recognition of the Union is concerned, the situation is practically the same as it was before the strike was called. As regards the closed shop principle, the defeat is complete." "Then you consider it a defeat?" asked a newshawk...