Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-hoarding campaign, Secretary Mills added, ". . . While it seems almost cruel to urge patience ... yet I cannot help but feel we should give the forces which have been set in motion an opportunity to exert themselves before yielding to doubt as to whether we are on the right path." Pressmen applauded politely...
...most merciless publicity, Every "angle" is played up; every drop of human interest must be squeezed out of the story into the newspapers. And in cynical self-justification one of the Boston papers bewailed the fact that so much money had to be spent on the army of pressmen sent to Hopewell to "satisfy the American craving for news." The kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby few will deny is news in the full sense of the word but few will also dismiss the fact that the tremendous publicity has hindered rather than hastened the return of the child...
...conferred four hours. Reporters waited anxiously to congratulate the winner of the bitter contest. When the doors finally opened a spokesman appeared, said neither the Franklin nor the Chapman-Dollar-Dawson bid was satisfactory; new conditions were to be prepared, new bids could be submitted by anyone interested. Astonished pressmen searched for Chairman O'Connor, found he had slipped out by a side door. Mr. Franklin's outburst had scored a major victory for his company...
...Butte daily, but there was not enough hatred left. After a few months he abandoned the project. The battle was over. Of the original Standard editors only famed Charles H. ("Egg") Eggleston survived, and he was finally forced into comparative retirement by failing eyesight. A few printers and pressmen continued to turn out the ghostlike Standard-until last week...
...first overt effort of the jobless to help themselves as a group, with the publication of a weekly tabloid named Newsdom. It is an eight-page, five-column sheet devoted largely to gossip of newspaper offices in the New York metropolitan area, to be sold among working newspapermen, admen & pressmen...