Word: newshawking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both its House of Deputies and House of Bishops had passed resolutions to send a "suitable message" to the President. But General Convention adjourned and it took a newshawk to remind Presiding Bishop Perry of the Bishops and Ze Barney Thorne Phillips of the Deputies that nothing had been done about the message. Dr. Phillips turned to Dr. Perry: "I'll write it and you sign it." "No," countered the Presiding Bishop, "you sign it and I'll write it." "No," parried Deputy Phillips, chaplain of the U. S. Senate, "You sign it. I'm too close...
...Reed (Portland, Ore.) the rope snapped between Nos. 4 and 5 on the freshman tug-of-war team. Nos. 1 to 4 gamely held tight while howling sophomores dragged them through a muddy, 75-ft. slough neck-deep with icy water. As they emerged a newshawk approached spluttering Freshman No. 1, asked why he was there...
...sometimes does when he has a point to make to the country through its newspapers. President Roosevelt primed a friendly newshawk to ask him about commodity prices at last week's first press conference. He thereupon delivered a 20-min. discourse. Chief points: 1) the Administration, through AAA, HOLC and NRA, is still firmly committed to raising the national price level; 2) the goal will not necessarily be the fabled 1926 index, may aim at pre-War parity between agricultural and industrial prices; 3) wages will have to be upped responsively...
...Wilkes-Barre, Pa. murder the "American Tragedy." Philadelphia Record editors said it was their reporter Andrew MacLain ("Mac") Parker. City Editor Charles Israel of the Philadelphia Bulletin said it was himself. The city editor of the Scranton Times credited a United Press man. Possibly all three, and many another newshawk, swooped at once on the catch-phrase the moment they heard, two months ago. that Robert Allan Edwards, 21, was accused of bashing his pregnant girl over the head in a lake so he could marry his other girl. That was exactly the plot of Theodore Dreiser's An American...
Promptly America, Jesuit weekly, called upon pious Methodist Ambassador Daniels to resign his post. To a Catholic newshawk Ambassador Daniels explained that he did indeed quote General Calles, but without commenting on the "character or quality" of Mexican education. America insisted: "Either he knew what Calles meant, or he did not. If he did know, he was guilty of an unwarrantable interference in Mexican politics, and on the side of the anti-Christians. If he did not know, then he should not be in Mexico as our Ambassador. In either case, he should resign...