Word: newshawked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan newshawk who went to interview him when Secretary Perkins appointed him mediator of Toledo's Electric Auto-lite Co. strike two years ago, Charlie Taft inquired: "What is there about an Ohio lawyer to interest the East?" Last week not even modest Mr. Taft could deny that his views were of interest to the whole nation. A frequent Topeka visitor since December, he largely drafted the Landon planks on relief, social security and civil service reform, went to the Cleveland Convention as Alf Landon's personal representative to see that they got into the platform. Few days...
...secret People's Court sentenced to life imprisonment Walter Schwertfeger, 35, German newshawk, for telling foreign newshawks the secret restrictions laid on the German Press by Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Paul Joseph Goebbels. On the People's Court's second anniversary last week new President Dr. Otto Georg Thierack announced that telling foreigners industrial secrets also comes under the head of treason...
...years of newspapering Forrest Davis had never before held down an executive job. Born in Indiana, this son of a Presbyterian minister gravitated to Manhattan, became the ace newshawk of the World-Telegram. Equally good at straight reporting or feature writing, he was given a roving commission for the Scripps-Howard chain last year. He had just finished a Midwest tour "to find out what America is really thinking about," when the Denver editorship came...
Invited to Suite No. 31 in the tall tower of Manhattan's Hotel Sherry-Netherland one day last week were picked representatives of the U. S. and British Press. Their host was Joseph Michael Schenck, massive, imperturbable board chairman of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. To each newshawk Mr. Schenck handed, not a highball in the Hollywood tradition, but a formal statement confirming the biggest cinema deal of the year. Then Mr. Schenck plunked himself down in the centre of a divan, flanked by the two other principals in the triple play: his younger brother and competitor, President Nicholas...
...test the reported willingness of bankers & brokers to back Alf M. Landon at 5-to-8 odds, the pro-Roosevelt New York Daily News sent a newshawk to Wall Street with $1,600 in cash. Unable to find anyone to bet $1,000 on the Republican nominee, the newshawk reversed his position, promptly discovered a Roosevelt supporter who bet $1,400 against his $1,000 that the President would...