Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporter Corrigan works for no newspaper, yet New York City's dailies could hardly get along without him. He is a district man for City News Association, which, covers Manhattan and The Bronx (pop.: 3,170,000) exactly as the Associated Press covers the world. He and 60 others like him keep 24-hour watch over every police station, every court, every jail, every hospital, every morgue and every administrative office in the two boroughs. Whenever and wherever news breaks City Newsmen are usually the first to spot it. They tell their office and their office tells the newspapers...
City News has only two counterparts in the U. S.-Standard News (Brooklyn and suburbs), and City News Bureau of Chicago (pop.: 3,380,000). It was organized 40 years ago, and, like A. P., is supported by weekly assessments on its ten members.* The most anonymous news service in the world, it never receives credit in print, never gives or gets a byline. Often City News merely supplements what a newspaper's own man gathers by himself. Without it, however, each paper would have to hire 12 or 15 extra legmen, could never send large staffs...
...working as a grocer's clerk, joining a fire company to get a free bed. At 53 he was making nearly $100,000 a year and had been groomed for the Presidency. At 27 he was manager, cashier, janitor and night watchman of a bank at Malone, Tex. (pop. 150) where he slept on a cot in the corridor. At 47 he was president of Chicago's second biggest bank, the First National (present assets $643,000,000), and lived in a 14-room house on Barry Ave. All Mel Traylor carried from a crude Kentucky boyhood...
...towns as small as Susquehanna, Pa. (pop. 3,203) have a daily paper. No U. S. small town has a daily paper more militantly enterprising than the six-page, 48-year-old Susquehanna Evening Transcript. Last week the Transcript's 280-lb. Editor Ulysses Simpson Grant Baker successfully passed a major milestone in his three-year fight with the Canawacta Water Supply...
...Greenville (pop. 1,000), 22 mi. south of Kokadjo, Nurse Eleanor Hamilton got word from another trapper in mid-November that Allen's hand was mighty bad. Snow had not yet shut Kokadjo in for the winter. Nurse Hamilton found the lean, grey trapper still up & around, but his hand was swollen like a puffball and he felt chilly and feverish. She bathed his hand, gave him some pills and something hot to drink. She came back off & on for two weeks but by then Trapper Macdougall was so much worse that she got a neighbor with an automobile...