Word: newshawking
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...prime Democratic archer during the last Republican Administration was bushy, grey Charles Michelson. oldtime newshawk who became National Committee Publicity Director in 1929 while Jim Farley was still a boxing commissioner. So effectively did he bulls-eye his arrows, after dipping them in pure vitriol, that gasping Old Guardsmen cried out in anguish against Charley Michelson's "Smear Hoover" campaign. When the New Dealers rode into power he was called in to explain them to the country. He smoothed press relations during the Bank Holiday. He wrote speeches trying to sell NRA. In fact, he was supposed to write...
...confused with Hubert Fauntleroy Julian. "The Black Eagle of Harlem" who also flew in Ethiopia. "Brown Condor'' Robinson went to Ethiopia as a newshawk, became Haile Selassie's personal pilot...
Washington newshawk, who probably hands out more mimeographed releases and gets more of them into the newspapers than any other pressagent in Washington...
...Newshawk Perkins did as bidden, and had his picture taken. Fair deduction by the press: that anyone who expects Franklin Roosevelt to be frank about the third term idea is indeed a dunce...
King of Gamblers (Paramount). A newshawk (Lloyd Nolan) and a nightclub singer (Claire Trevor) unraveling some fascinating underworld homicides perpetrated by Akim Tamiroff...