Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspaperman sent his Chinese assistant to cover a dinner eaten by Japanese officials and their Chinese puppets. The assistant reported as follows...
Neville Miller got his first real taste of radio when, as mayor of Louisville, Ky., he directed emergency crews during the 1937 Ohio-Mississippi flood. After a spell as executive assistant to Princeton University's President Dodds, Neville Miller returned to the air, succeeded his friend, Louisville Newspaperman Mark Ethridge, as president of the National Association of Broadcasters. Today his rich baritone, speaking for 428 N. A. B. members, is an articulate voice for the U. S. radio industry. Last week, with the industry noisily congregated at N. A. B.'s 17th annual convention in noisy Atlantic City...
...petition begging him to stay on. So the 30-year-old, pint-size, freckle-faced boss of Mark Twain's and Bret Harte's paper decided to stick to his job. One of the funny things about Pinky Smith is that he is dazzled by being a newspaperman...
...school netted him $90, with which he started a weekly newspaper. When it folded, he sold books on the road for three more years, went to Kansas City, studied law, was admitted lo the bar. He quit the law because all the lawyers he saw were drunk and a newspaperman told him that if he wrote he would starve to death but, meantime, would always have a lot of fun. He founded a magazine called Plain Talk, which was suppressed for inciting race troubles. So he changed its name to The Pitchfork "because the pitchfork is the poor...
...Bellingham (pop. 30,823), a turbulent town long torn by private feuds and political catfights, Newspaperman Sefrit is known as "Little Hearst." Charles Fisher, an educational progressive, for 16 years has been president of Western Washington College of Education at Bellingham, which he made one of the most esteemed teachers' colleges in the U. S. To kick Fisher out of his job became Sefrit's ambition. With other enemies of Fisher he formed a committee, which filed charges that the college seldom displayed the U. S. flag on the campus, had invited subversive speakers to talk...