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...instance the Scripps-Howard Express (now the Rocky Mountain News) six years ago chose these brands for Publisher Bonfils and his Post: "shame," "disgrace," "bandit," "brigand." "lawless," "bunco," "scaly monstrosity," "mountebank," "... a blackmailing, blackguarding, nauseaus (sic) sheet which stinks to high heaven and which is the shame of newspapermen the world over." But neither friend nor foe could call Publisher Bonfils "sensitive." Journalistic rough-&-tumble was his particular meat. He was an able name-caller himself. The battle of the Post and Rocky Mountain News was costly to both combatants. Because the Scripps-Howard morning News started an evening edition...
...radio announcers, delegates, newspapermen and close friends of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the latter who should know better, mispronounce his name Rose-a-velt when it is distinctly Roosevelt...
...voted him $6,000 a year. His friends did not like to call it a "pension," said rather it was payment for "overtime work in the past." Beclouded was the outlook for Mr. Insull's expensive hobby, Chicago's Civic Opera. In Cleveland, Cyrus Stephen Eaton told newspapermen he was sorry for Samuel Insull. When Mr. Insull found out in 1928 that Mr. Eaton was buying Insull securities, he hastened to form the holding companies whose collapse precipitated his downfall, just as Mr. Eaton's overextension caused...
While the meetings consisted largely of private discussions, oilmen wondered if Socony-Vacuum's Arnott was not bidding for leadership of the world's petroleum industry. It was he who called the conference, he who held a daily meeting with newspapermen...
...newspapermen had been hurriedly summoned from Trenton and Hopewell for the official announcement in the Lindbergh garage. The discovery made hushed after-dinner talk for most U.S. citizens, but the child's father did not learn about it until nine hours after the body was found. It came to him by radio. Stirred on by John Hughes Curtis, charter member of the Norfolk, Va. triumvirate whose boat-building activities have placed him in contact with rum runners, Col. Lindbergh was groping hopelessly about the dark waters off Cape May, N. J.?still trying to buy his child back from...