Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife is Scripps-Howard's able Washington Correspondent Ruth Finney, lost his job as Washington correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor four years ago when his employers discovered that he had helped write anonymous, gossipy Washington Merry-Go-Round (TIME, Sept. 21, 1931). When his good friend & colleague, Drew Pearson, was similarly discharged from the Baltimore Sun for his hand in More Merry-Go-Round, the two turned their bad luck into fame & fortune by starting a syndicated column called Washington Merry-Go-Round. Crack newshawks both, their knowing gossip has made them minor political powers around the capital, while...
Year ago Bob Allen gave a helping hand to a friend when he got Paul C. Yates a job as executive assistant to his partner's father, Governor Paul Martin Pearson of the Virgin Islands. Paul Yates's behavior in that capacity curdled Bob Allen's friendship into the wrath which exploded in the Senate corridor last week.** Their fisticuffs were a fitting prelude to a solemn Senate investigation of Governor Pearson's administration...
...visit in 1931. Following a brief inspection. President Hoover publicly labeled them "a poorhouse." Not bothering to mention the fact that U. S. Prohibition had ruined the Islanders by destroying their chief means of livelihood, the manufacture of rum, the President left the three little Virgins to Civil Governor Pearson whom he had just appointed, sailed back to bigger headaches in Washington...
...Department. Thereupon Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison persuaded Attorney General Cummings to give the job to T. (for Thomas) Webber Wilson, a Mississippi Democrat who had lost his seat in the House by running, unsuccessfully, for the Senate. Negro-wise Judge Wilson soon roused the Islanders' fury against Governor Pearson to fever pitch. Looming up as a likely successor if Pearson could be dislodged, he made national news by pouncing on poor Quadroon Mclntosh. Acting as combined prosecutor, jury & judge, Judge T. Webber Wilson denounced the pilferer as "a Judas and Benedict Arnold to your country," found him guilty, sentenced...
Robert Bertram Lichenstein, Oscar Mendel Lurie, Benjamin Maurice Mark, Branford Price Millar, Erling Charles Olsen, Russell George Olsen, Roy Messer Pearson, Jr., Joseph Henry Phillips, Irving Murray Pinansky, Richard McMahon Powell, David Rome, William Shapiro, Samuel Tredwell Skidmore, Jr., Stanley Stellar, Shigeto Tsuru, Sherwood Larned Washburn, John Burke Wilkinson, Richard Edward Wolf...