Word: palooka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected at last week's convention of the American Newspaper Publishers Association in Manhattan. But no sharper attack on radio was forthcoming than the suggestion by Col. Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, that features whose goodwill has been built up through the Press (Joe Palooka, Walter Winchell, Orphan Annie, Emily Post et al.) should not be allowed to capitalize their popularity before the microphone. Newspapers' attitude toward radio is softening, changing from antagonism to alliance. Much advertising money spent in radio now finds its way to publishers' purses. The Columbia system estimates that...