Word: newshawking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more familiar to Europeans than Anthony Eden's famed black Homburg is British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's black, rolled umbrella. Last week a newshawk from the London Daily Express sought out the salesman from whom Mr. Chamberlain bought it. With characteristic British clarity, the salesman described it: "It's what one might call a Rolls-Royce of an umbrella, natty but quiet, solid but a light dasher. The sort of umbrella which becomes part...
...Beulah. Said Mrs. Seton: "People do look askance at us, and want to know if Beulah isn't our adopted daughter. They do not understand that Mr. Seton, despite his age, is just as youthful mentally, physically and spiritually as he has ever been." Interviewed again by a newshawk who had discovered that last June in Santa Fe they had filed adoption papers for the child, she said: "We were going to make the adoption public. . . . We wanted the world to believe until that time that Beulah is ours." In Toronto Mrs. Martin Kenny, 35, mother of 16 (some...
...maximum work week, requires overtime payment at one and one-half times the regular salary rate. But out-of-town assignments are part of the normal duties of many a reporter, and while some Guild contracts require twelve hours' pay for each day away from home, any newshawk who tried to collect 24 hours on the same basis would soon be laughed...
This week Governor Benson's newshawk friends scored a scoop on their own papers when George W. Kelley, their Duluth cochairman, received the following wire from Franklin Roosevelt: "If the political writers on Minnesota papers are inferring that I have deliberately withheld approval from or disapproved candidacy of your Progressive Governor for reelection, they are of course misinterpreting my attitude. I have repeatedly indicated the high esteem in which I hold Governor Benson...
...When the President quipped that Electric Bond & Share's long-awaited acquiescence to SEC's holding company regulations showed that the utilities' "death sentence" was really a "health sentence" (see p. 56) a newshawk asked: "You wouldn't call it a life sentence...