Word: rewriteman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia Record editorial department conducted an office pool in which members guessed the number of electoral votes. Closest and victor was Rewriteman Warren MacAllen who gave Landon only Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire. On election night came news that the Knox New Hampshire paper had conceded the State to Roosevelt. Promptly wisecracked Rewriteman-Prognosticator MacAllen: "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont." Credit to whom credit is due. Undoubtedly the idea burst to the lips of others; but MacAllen was ahead of Farley...
Dean Sothern Jennings, 28, son of the pastor of San Francisco's fashionable St. Luke's Episcopal Church, was No. 1 rewriteman on Hearst's Call-Bulletin. Last May that paper's chapter of the American Newspaper Guild elected him delegate to the St. Paul convention, and Newsman Jennings arranged his vacation accordingly. At the last minute the city editor, managing editor and publisher all informed Jennings he could not be spared at that time. Said Hearst's Publisher Robert Paul Holliday: "The only way you can have this vacation money is to resign." Dean...
Fortnight ago Chairman Francis Biddle of the Labor Board waved aside such Hearstian arguments on jurisdiction and rendered a decision. Findings: ". . . The Call-Bulletin has interfered with the self- organization of its employes in violation of Section ya of the National Recovery Act." Rewriteman Jennings was to be offered reinstatement within ten days or the case would be referred to the Compliance Division of NRA and the Department of Justice for action against the paper...