Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Frank Arthur Vanderlip, 72, one-time (1897-1901) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, onetime (1909-19) President of New York's National City Bank; after an operation; in Manhattan. Born of poor parents in Aurora, Ill., Banker Vanderlip was first a newspaperman in Aurora and Chicago. While associate editor of the Chicago Economist he was called upon to advise financiers in the panic of 1896. His handling of the panic won him his Treasury Department job. From 1919 to 1924 Banker Vanderlip made repeated trips abroad studying international finance. He predicted a world financial catastrophe unless all countries...
...good newspaperman would rather have his name above a story than in it. Last week Morris Watson, legal guinea-pig of the American Newspaper Guild's test case against the Associated Press (TIME, June 29 et seq.), not only had his name in a story but that story was before the Supreme Court of the United States and its climax became the law of the land...
...handling of the Tercentenary, his action as the student--all of which has won commendation from the press, have shot Harvard up to the crest achieved by Eliot. At this meeting, then, President Conant will see the reaction of alumni at first hand, and like a good newspaperman he will speak the right kind and amount of information to make that reaction favorable...
ROAD MY BODY GOES-Clifford Gessler -Reynal & Hitchcock ($3.50). A tourist-free island of the South Seas described by a Honolulu newspaperman who spent a picturesque three months there, warns his readers away by saying the mosquitoes reek with elephantiasis germs...
Died. Lionel Charles ("Dick") Probert, 53, vice president of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, whose "Chessie" cat advertising campaign he fostered; of pneumonia ; in Los Angeles. Once a locomotive fireman, he turned newspaperman, became Associated Press Bureau chief in Mexico (1913) and Washington (1918-27). He saw President McKinley assassinated, went to France with President Wilson. The late Brothers Van Sweringen got him back in the railroad business as vice president of the Erie...