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Many a time Son-in-Law Charles John Boettiger (pronounced Bott-igger) had stood in that same office along with those same newshawks listening to Mr. Early's pronouncements. A strapping 6 ft. 2, he was just a plain high-school-educated newshawk covering police courts, bankers' conventions, scientific meetings for the Chicago Tribune until one day in 1930. Then another Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, was shot in Chicago. Publisher McCormick of the Tribune put Boettiger on the case. He stuck to it, wrote the Tribune's stories on it, right up to the capture and conviction...
...constitutional requirement a North Dakotan must have lived five consecutive years in the State to be eligible for the Governorship. Husky, mop-haired "Tom" Moodie is an oldtime itinerant newshawk whose restless feet have carried him through newspaper shops from Cleveland to San Francisco to New Orleans. For ten years he has lived chiefly in North Dakota, the last four as editor of his own paper at Williston. But in 1930 the urge to move took him to Minneapolis for a time. When North Dakota Republicans discovered that he had voted that year in Minnesota, they secured an injunction which...
...reporters continued to question Leader Dietz, an excited mechanic from Pittsburgh finally became so upset that he seized a newshawk by the lapel, shook him vigorously and shouted: "So you are worried about whether it is un-American to vote for Hitler? Well, let me tell you this! A vote for Hitler-well it's all in one bag-Hitler and Germany...
...Said a newshawk: "Do you like to talk about other things than Science...
...dead at contact, and therefore lose the extra mass represented by their energies of motion. But with the change of mass there is a change of energy, and, as the blackboard showed at the end of an hour, the two are precisely equal. When the lecture was over a newshawk scuttled up to the blackboard, seized the piece of chalk which Dr. Einstein had laid down, carried it off proudly as a trophy...