Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the children were thus alone, there was a heavy knocking on the French doors that open on a terrace at the rear of the house. Brown-haired, brown-eyed young Charles went to investigate. Popping with excitement, he ran back into the living room to report that he had seen a masked man through the glass. "I'll get my air rifle,'" he cried, starting for the stairs. A crash of glass stopped him in his tracks, A moment later the masked man was in the room brandishing a revolver. Billy thought the man was crazy...
...Fitch confirmed that the city of Weinan, which had absolutely nothing to do with the case, had been wiped out and said he thought 400 Chinese in Sian, also bystanders, had been "exe-cuted in and around Sian during the purge which followed the coup." A further and persistent report was that the Dictator, while technically the prisoner of kidnappers, had held long and earnest parleys in Sian with the celebrated Chinese Communist, General Cho Wen-lai, "Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Armies...
Adopted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, in accepting the report of its committee to investigate influences inimical to intercollegiate sport, this pronunciamento was the biggest news contributed last week by the annual meetings of the N. C. A. A., the College Physical Education Association and the American Football Coaches Association, held simultaneously in Manhattan. Meanwhile, an aggregate crowd of 219,000 watched 14 teams tardily conclude the football season of 1936 on the first day of 1937 in seven post-season games, from San Francisco to Havana...
Just as no expense was stinted to make the Peter Arrell Brown Widener II's "Bubble Ball" Philadelphia's party of the year, neither did the Record stint space to report, for Philadelphians without the engraved card necessary to pass detectives and a fresh-painted picket fence, all details such as pink satin walls, pink lilies and pink soapsuds fountain in the swank Bellevue-Stratford Hotel.* Invidiously balanced against a paragraph pointing out that Peter Arrell Brown Widener II's fortune was established by his grandfather, the Record reported that James Harvey Gravell started to make...
Macy & Co. (mammoth Manhattan department store) when he did so well on a report about the linoleum industry that Executive Vice President Oswald Whitman Knauth made him his assistant. At 30, Mr. Hoving was himself a Macy executive vice president. In 1932 Sewell Lee Avery made him vice president & general sales manager of Montgomery Ward & Co. in Chicago, told him to put sex appeal into Ward's catalog, packaging, merchandising. Walter Hoving did a good job.- Last spring his old boss, Oswald Whitman Knauth, now president of Associated Dry Goods Corp., which controls eight U. S. department stores...