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...Paul Poorman, managing editor of the Detroit News, tells Wallace that it is "dishonest" for reporters to accept favors, although he also admits receiving a press discount on the purchase of a car three years ago. Poorman has since chaired a study on junketing for the Associated Press Managing Editors, and forbidden News staffers to accept any gratuities at all, but he sees no quick reform: "The whole issue is greeted with tightly controlled apathy on the part of many newspapermen...
ROBERT J. POORMAN...
...measure of home rule, had the winter been so mild and the breakup so early. Parkas, mukluks, beaver caps and sealskin coats were thankfully stored away. The ice was gone from the Yukon River, and from the Porcupine, the Koyukuk and the Selawick. Out to Woodchopper, to Steel Creek, Poorman and a hundred other placer gold camps, packed the glint-eyed prospectors in search of a glint in the sand and gravel. In the villages of the Panhandle in the southeast, the red salmonberry blossoms fluttered, and the Indians spun out to gather wild celery and Indian rhubarb, came home...
...team through a brisk six mile workout along the riverbank and on Wednesday followed up with speed work in the cinders. On paper, tomorrow's race should be fairly close, with the edge going to the engineers on the strength of their depth through the middle with Poorman, Goldie, and Ray. Running number two, three, and four for M. I. T., these men form the backbone of a well-balanced team...
...Poorman Fred C. Perkins, maker of automobile batteries in a factory shed at York, Pa. was fined $1,500 because he could not afford to pay 40? an hour wages commanded by the New Deal...