Word: newshawking
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...allowed to inspect these same buildings and compel obedience to local laws against fire hazards. Informed of this at his press conference next day, the President declared that Government edifices certainly should conform to fire laws. Then a newshawk pointed out that the entrance door of his own Executive Offices broke the laws by opening inward...
...Directly in front of seat No. 13 (occupied by a newshawk) Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for his life at Flemington before Justice Trenchard...
...king or a kingmaker. This week, with his ace publicity man Ben Allen, he was in St. Louis to discourse to the John Marshall Republican Club on "The New Deal Further Explored, Including Relief." Listening to this third Hoover barrage, wiseacres credited the fertile wit of onetime Newshawk Allen with the following: "When I comb over these [Relief] accounts of the New Deal my sympathy arises for the humble decimal point. His is a pathetic and hectic life, wandering around among regimented ciphers trying to find some of the old places he used to know...
...true that you were in a romance with the Emperor's daughter?" chirped a grinning newshawk. Cried delighted Julian, "Christopher Columbus! Such rumors about me-rumors, rumors, rumors...
...down on Italy's demands for naval equality, with the U. S. doing the same to Japan, and others offending each other in various ways, there was every likelihood that international hatred would be stirred up rather than allayed. As Ambassador Davis boarded the Aquitania last week, a newshawk popped a demand at him: Would...