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...been sleepless was a corpulent, 59-year-old police reporter named John H. Dreher of the Seattle Times, one of a flock of 75 newshawks which alighted at Tacoma to cover the Northwest's biggest snatch. Oldster Dreher justified his 40 years in the business with an oldtime scoop. Somehow he got word of Farmer Bonifas' early morning call to the Tacoma police. "On one of those hunches that come like a royal flush," wrote Reporter Dreher afterward, "I started out in a taxicab to meet the farmer's automobile." Meet it he did. He commandeered...
...what in the nation did they spend the remaining $29,999.70 for? Or did they, perchance scoop said hole out of a gold mine...
...Japanese Embassy delicious tea and convincing denials were served to Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan and Associated Press General Manager Melville Stone by bland Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo Chinda. They came away apologetic, and President Stone cabled a thoroughgoing rebuke to Correspondent Moore-who had in fact obtained the scoop of the year, Japan's now famed Twenty-One Demands of 1915. After these demands proved authentic Secretary Bryan asked Ambassador Chinda...
...week for Yankee Network, the stations receive up to 50,000 words a day of finished news stories, ready for reading by the announcer. At almost any hour the station chooses, it can have enough fresh news for a 15-minute broadcast. It can, and occasionally does, scoop the official Press-Radio Bureau on such news as the Stoll kidnapping, the assassination of King Alexander, the extradition of Bruno Richard Hauptmann...
...Sept. 10 the San Francisco Chronicle burst out with a streaming black headline: LAMSON WINS NEW TRIAL. It would be hard to guess who was most astonished: Hearst's San Francisco Examiner which apparently had been badly scooped or Chief Justice William Harrison Waste of the California Supreme Court or David A. Lamson, sitting in his death cell at San Quentin Prison. Last year a San Jose jury had found the young Stanford University Press salesmanager guilty of murder after it refused to believe his story that his wife Allene had slipped in the bathtub and fatally fractured...