Word: newshawking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the audience the newshawk located "an elderly man in a blue suit, with twinkling eyes" who reminisced: "When I first saw her I remember she wore a long grey coat trimmed with black fur. I remember her eyes looking out from the fur. . . . She is quite as beautiful...
Since then, despite the fact that sociologically the death penalty exists only as a horrible warning to others, most newspapers have soft-pedaled electrocutions. Newshawks, many of whom leave a death chamber retching, rarely report such details as the victim's mouth foaming, hair burning, flesh giving off sparks. Exception was the Ruth Snyder execution in 1928, when the tabloid New York Daily News attained a U. S. circulation record of 1,556,000 by front-paging a photograph of the husband-killer in the electric chair. That picture, called by Editor & Publisher "the most sensational ever seen...
...took the name "Annie Laurie" in imitation of her celebrated contemporary, Joseph Pulitzer's globe-trotting "Nellie Bly." Her first husband, a newshawk named Orlow Black, died. She has long been separated from her second, the late Publisher Fred Bonfils' Brother Charles. Her two sons are dead, a daughter, married. Today she lives alone, except for her secretary and a Cherokee Indian maid...
...Last week for the first time in the memory of any Washington newshawk a government official publicly acknowledged the aid of a ghost writer. Copies of a speech delivered by Commissioner George C. Mathews rolled off the SEC mimeographs headed: "Prepared by I. N. P. Stokes 2nd and Commissioner Mathews." It was no clerical blunder. The modest Commissioner made a point of asking the publicity department to place ahead of his own the name of the young lawyer who helped him-Isaac Newton Phelps ("Ike") Stokes 2nd, son of Canon Anson Phelps Stokes of Washington Cathedral and a member...
...organized during the War to lend farmers money on mortgages, represent the most successful effort in the U. S. to provide cheap, long-term agricultural credit. Last week with all twelve Land Bank presidents in Washington for a conference with the Farm Credit Administration, an alert Wall Street Journal newshawk obtained a comprehensive survey of farm real estate conditions without leaving the city. Since the Land Banks have picked up a goodly num-ber of farms by foreclosure, the assembled presidents spoke not only as mortgage bankers but also as big real estate dealers with land for sale. All twelve...