Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choice: tall, stooped, scholarly Charles Griffith Ross, 59. Washington correspondent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a discerning and fair-minded news veteran who has long had the respect of Washington's critical, competitive correspondent corps. In the decades since he was graduated from the Independence (Mo.) high school with Harry Truman, Charley Ross has served 16 years as chief of the P-D's Washington bureau, handled almost every kind of story, and specialized brilliantly in political reporting...
...Charley Ross won journalism's Pulitzer Prize for his thoughtful inquiry into the depression era and the remedies applied by the Hoover Administration...
...left the room. She returned after a few moments to apologize for leaving "in this way," and rode back to the White House. In her sitting room on the second floor, surrounded by hundreds of cherished photographs of her family and friends, she faced Stephen Early and Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire. "The President," said Early, "has slept away...
...General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson. As his personal secretary the President took closemouthed Matthew J. Connelly, who had become his confidential secretary after last November's election. For press secretary, the job now held by round-faced, amiable Jonathan Daniels, there was talk of the veteran Charles G. Ross, of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, or younger (45) Samuel Amos O'Neal, ex-Post-Dispatch reporter who is now public-relations director for the Democratic National Committee...
...complete lineup of the Varsity shell consists of the following: Stroke, T. S. Ross '48; 7, H. Grant '48; 6, J. D. Kottelic '46; 5, R. B. Perkins '47; 4, R. W. MacNamara '47; 3, T. Daymond '47; 2, M. C. Wambaugh '44; Bow, P. B. Roll...