Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What a shortstop is to a pitcher, what a tail is to a kite, what a pin is to a pinwheel -Bill Hawkins is to Roy Howard. In 1906 when Roy Howard, a brash boy wonder two years off the Cincinnati Post, was made New York manager of the brand new Scripps' Publishers' Press Association at $50 a week (which he agreed to plough back for stock), his first appointee was Bill Hawkins, out of Springfield, Mo. by way of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Next year reorganization carried them into the United Press together. There for 13 years...
...this was that, at 53, Roy Howard was about to become that rare specimen, a U. S. executive who, instead of continuing along a channel of activity into which he has permitted circumstances to push him, insists on his right to climb out and do the job for which he is best fitted and likes most. "I have never been one of those gifted birds who could sit back and say: 'All right boys, go get 'em!'" complains Roy Howard. "I have to say: 'All right boys...
...last September a neatly planned interchange of letters with the White House evoked from Frank-lin Roosevelt the political catch-phrase of the season: The promise to U. S. business of a "breathing spell." In December, after intimately traveling through the month-old Philippine Commonwealth with President Manuel Quezon, Roy Howard again produced a front-page sensation by asserting that the Islands wanted, not full independence, but permanent commonwealth status. Three months later the snappy little publisher was inside the Kremlin, drawing from steely Dictator Joseph Stalin the hypothetical circumstances under which Russia would fight Japan...
...Scripps-Howard chain, the World-Telegram's metropolitan performance is almost exclusively a Roy Howard show. Singlehanded in 1931 he carried through the negotiations by which the failing Brothers Pulitzer's Worlds were merged for $3,000,000 (plus $2,000,000 future profits) with the flashy Scripps-Howard Telegram, bought four years before. It was Publisher Howard who junked the morning and Sunday Worlds, announced to a skeptical city that the independent, crusading, liberal traditions of Joseph Pulitzer's great paper had suffered not death but "rebirth." Not until 1933, when the World-Telegram...
...alone are sufficiently resilient to give but not shatter under the pressure of what he sees as a world-wide Leftward swing. Does his present critical attitude indicate that he has fundamentally changed his mind about Roosevelt & Co.? Last week, best answer seemed to be that one of cagey Roy Howard's strongest policies is never to let a politician feel too sure...