Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspaperman will tell you that Fred W. Mizer, manager of Miami's radio station WQAM, missed the chance of a lifetime one night last week in Miami's Bay Front Park. When stumpy little Joe Zangara started shooting at President-elect Roosevelt. Mr. Mizer had the story-or at least the means of getting it instantly to the nation-right in his hand. No newshawk, he let the chance go by out of diplomacy or excitement...
...would enlist in the Union Army. He enlisted, came down with dysentery, was discharged as unfit for further service, and ended the war in the Navy. Discovering a gift for journalism, he put it to work, finally took the eye of James Gordon Bennett, then No.1 U. S. newspaperman, editor of the New York Herald...
...Confederate Veteran grew out of a series of circular letters in 1890 soliciting funds for a Jefferson Davis Memorial in Richmond. The founder was Sumner A. Cunningham, a Tennessee publisher who had lately sold his Chattanooga Times for $300 to an up-&-coming young newspaperman named Adolph Ochs. Cunningham's pamphlets about the memorial fund aroused so much interest among the Grays that he started the monthly magazine to retain that interest. Main features were veterans' reminiscences, historical sketches "to correct erroneous impressions...
Exploded Canada's rich, pious, bachelor Premier Richard Bedford Bennett when Halifax newshawks on the S. S. Georgic's gangplank asked if he were contemplating marriage: "The impertinence of the Press is amazing! Only a few days ago a newspaperman rang me up while I was at breakfast to ask me whether it was true I had been married that morning. Does it look as if I had been married, when I am sailing for England...
...articles, moved to Europe, faded from the limelight. Yet when he died last week at 56 in France, "O'Malley of the Sun" was still news all over the country. Editorials mourned the passing of a Great Reporter. Colyumist F. P. Adams called him "the perfect and utter newspaperman...