Word: newshawked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Will the newshawk who questions Howell...
...Constitution?" asked a grinning newshawk of the President...
...Gruening is no doctor of philosophy like Dr. Tugwell or Dr. Moley, but a real M. D. His medical practice, however, has been devoted mostly to curing social ills. In 1911, even before graduating from Harvard Medical School, he started as newshawk, became copyreader, city editor, managing editor successively to Boston's American, Herald, Traveler, Journal, then to Manhattan's Tribune. Nine years of such experience convinced him of the pathological condition of U. S. society...
...Henri announced last week that the prime purpose of his visit was to confer with his old friend Walter C. Teagle of Standard Oil. "There is always," said he, "enough to talk about when oil men get together." But to a newshawk who asked him if a world oil conference was likely this year, he shot back: "What can be done until you put your house in order...
Meanwhile, the project of planting a $75,000,000 belt of trees as a means of land reclamation was last week running into considerable ridicule. Near broiling Manhattan, Kans. a farmer drawled to an out-of-town newshawk: "Have you ever been to those small western Kansas county seat towns? If you have you may have noticed the trees about the public buildings. They have been trying for 20 years to raise trees in prepared soil and right now they have not got them much more than ten feet high...