Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary Hurley did com plain about news stories filed by Pearson to the Sun in recent months, but made no protest about the "Cotillion Leader" chapter in More Merry-Go-Round. Of their own volition, Sun executives decided that Pearson's part in the book was a "last straw," that his usefulness to the news paper was ended...
...Reporter Pearson's story: Just after More Merry-Go-Round was published he was summoned by his Managing Editor William Emmet Moore who inquired pleasantly if Pearson were going to write any more books, said the Sun would be pleased if every staff member produced a best seller. A day or two later Pearson was summoned to the War Department. He found Secretary Hurley, white-faced, "in a towering rage," pacing up and down his office. Said the Secretary: "This is a terrible thing you have done, Drew. You are trying to ruin my career. . . . Damnable lies. . . . You wrote that...
Secretary Hurley's story: The Secretary did not ask for Pearson's dismissal. He never "shot" anyone, except perhaps in the War, and he never knew any John McGinnis...
...bringing to light the hitherto unknown facts and circumstances of the Wickersham Commission's exhaustive report on Prohibition." Honorably mentioned for their work were Charles Griffith Ross (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), Walker Showers Buel (Cleveland Plain Dealer), Ashmun Norris Brown (Providence Journal), Harry W. Frantz (United Press), Drew Pearson (Baltimore Sun), John Snure Jr. (Washington Times...
...national politics, he sometimes gives routine stories a special twist to lift them out of the obvious. Unlike his Sim colleague Frank Richardson Kent, he has no sharp sting in his pen. He specializes on complex railroad merger stories, leaves foreign affairs mostly to his smart assistant. Drew Pearson...