Word: newshawking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thick mist of mystery the film was studied by the La Follette Committee, its staff and a few other officials, but one description was available last week. Written by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Paul Anderson, the story was a clean copyright scoop. Newshawk Anderson, a close friend of Senator La Follette, had unquestionably seen the picture. Some scenes of the riot which left nine men dead or dying...
...Many a newshawk who covered the "monkey trial" of John Thomas Scopes at Dayton, Tenn. in 1925 feels that the sudden death of William Jennings Bryan in that little town was in large part due to the forensic drubbing he received from the satanic tongue of Clarence Darrow. At one point the grim old lawyer said: "The Bible says every living thing that was not taken on the Ark with Noah was drowned in the flood. Do you believe that Mr. Bryan...
...book called Blood and Ink and who learned about sit-down strikes in France last year, is covering the Labor front for Hearst's Universal Service. His itinerary since January: Flint, Detroit, Lansing, Pontiac, Oshawa (Canada), Pittsburgh, South Chicago, Johnstown, Youngstown. He, like many another 1937 Labor newshawk, rarely has time to use anything except airplanes. Universal's Labor specialist in Washington is handsome Eugene Kelly who turned reporter after studying for the priesthood at the North American College in Rome and for the law in Philadelphia and Washington. His most famous specialty is baiting William Green: "Come...
...Author, Elliot Harold Paul, 46, looks like a Frenchman but was Massachusetts-born & bred, left his job as newshawk to go to France with the A.E.F. as a private, came out as a sergeant. In 1925 he went back to France, worked on the Paris editions of the Chicago Tribune, New York Herald, with Eugene Jolas founded the literary left-wing review transition (TIME, July 13). An accomplished musician, Author Paul is an authority on the clavichord and harpsichord, is now working on a "musical novel" (his eighth) in Manhattan. He hopes to get back to Iviza "some...
...tried for murder, repudiated his confession (which he said had been obtained by threats to drag his fiancee into the case) and convicted. Five times reprieved, he was still in the death house awaiting execution last May when Franklin Roosevelt, trolling for tarpon off Texas, received a letter from Newshawk Philip H. Love of the Washington Star. Newshawk Love reported that, preparing himself to write about the execution, he had consulted an account he had written six years ago at the time of the murder. He had found discrepancies. Checking up with police records, he found that dying Lizzie Jaynes...