Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rescued by the late Julius Rosenwald when he headed Sears, Roebuck. For its 14th edition, it needed $2,500,000 to keep going. This month veteran Editor Franklin Henry Hooper resigns after 40 years with the Britannica, turning over the reins to aggressive Walter Yust, associate editor and ex-newspaperman. Now moving from its Manhattan offices to luxurious new quarters in Chicago's Civic Opera Building, the staff is working on the encyclopædia's new yearbook of 1,000 articles, scheduled for publication this month...
LAND WITHOUT MOSES-Charles Curtis Munz-Harper ($2.50). As savage as Erskine Caldwell's, and more comprehensive, this picture of Southern sharecroppers, by a Texas newspaperman, gives the South a clear lead in producing its own severest critics...
...little man to whom Mr. Hearst passed the staggering responsibilities of revamping his empire is one of his oldest but least publicized advisers. Clarence Shearn intended to be a newspaperman, but one of the first stories he wrote as a New York Times reporter resulted in a libel suit. Assigned to help frame the defense, Reporter Shearn soon took the law for a livelihood. In the early 90s he became Mr. Hearst's attorney and legal crusader against coal and food combines, has since drawn up most of Mr. and Mrs. Hearst's most intimate documents...
...newspaperman he was still relatively unknown when the liberal sheets set about burying him, although he is a director of the Baltimore Sunpapers and has been a member of the Sun staff for 31 years. Now a Sun editor for the first time, he bites off chunks of cigars and chews them with a new relish, slings his rough language around the Sun office and continues to be thoroughly sentimental about everything except the New Deal. At least twice a week he visits a friend at some hospital, each day answers every letter in his voluminous mail, including...
...This letter is addressed to you not as President of the United States, but as a former newspaperman working in the city of Cambridge. We know that during your college days you became President of the Harvard Crimson on after covering assignments, chasing interviews, editing copy...