Word: newshawking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albert Einstein. He quickly convinced reporters that he was indeed a marvel at quick mental calculation. He would say, "Think of a number from one to a bil lion," multiply the number given by a smaller number and have the answer in a few seconds. He would ask a newshawk for the date of his birth and then, after a moment of cogitation, tell him what day of the week it had been...
...made an inaccurate and erroneous statement in your issue of Dec. 27. ... You said: "That the finance companies were not entirely innocent of shenanigans appeared, however, with the revelation that they had hired a onetime newshawk named Harry G. Croy to investigate the personnel of the grand jury...
TIME, in company with newspapers reporting the trial, erred. Newshawk Croy was hired by Phillip W. Haberman, attorney for Universal Credit, who says he wanted to find out why accounts of the supposedly secret Grand Jury proceedings were getting to the press. But all the finance companies, Commercial Credit included, would have benefited if Newshawk Croy had found out anything...
...globe it would not only annihilate everything at the site of impact but cause a tremendous earthquake and fires which would destroy life and property hundreds of miles away. If it fell into the sea, ships would be smashed and coast lines inundated by mighty tidal waves. When a newshawk asked Dr. Harry Edwin Wood of Johannesburg last week what would have happened if "Object Reinmuth" had landed on Earth, he answered with wry circumspection: "It might conceivably have altered the international situation somewhat...
...legend was created by the late Chicago Newshawk Michael Ahern and associates. Nobody knows the real cause of the Chicago fire...