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...building and knocked on a door. A janitor told Uncle Harry that they were all sleeping. "Do you see?" said Uncle Harry. "That's the Advocate." Then he took me up the street and told me we were going into the CRIMSON, an old rival. "We've got to scoop them," was all I could hear, and the presses were not running, nor were they anything like you see in the movies. "That's the CRIMSON," said Uncle Harry as though he had won a battle, but I told him that I did not care about any of them...
...Roosevelt let lady correspondents scoop male newshawks with the treasured news that after Feb. 15, when Prohibition ends in the District of Columbia, "simple wines" will be served at the White House, "preference being given to American wines. No distilled liquor [presumably no champagne] will at any time be served...
...Inside East Chicago's First National Bank one afternoon last week terrified customers and employes were lined up by two Indiana desperadoes, John Dillinger and John Hamilton. Outside were eight policemen. John Hamilton took time to scoop up $20,376. Then, using Vice President Walter Spencer as a shield, the gunmen battled their way to an accomplice's car, fled in a hail of bullets. On the sidewalk lay the riddled body of William P. O'Malley, fourth police victim of the Dillinger gang in three months' banditry...
International News Service carried a scoop by Sports Editor Davis J. Walsh who had made a special trip to Ann Arbor to get the latest information. The information was that Coach Kipke had not talked to Malcolm Farmer about coaching the Yale football team. The Walsh story caused a nation-wide sports page panic. The Chicago Tribune ran a banner headline on an A. P. story which contained the first news about an alumni committee appointed to find a new football coach. Five of the committee apparently favored hiring Kipke. The Tribune brought the name of Yale's famed...
Henry Ford, Detroit automobile manufacturer, yesterday helped the Times to scoop its rivals with an exclusive interview, the first he has given out, on the administration's recovery plans. Naturally, all those who read his words had hopes of finding out the reasons for his refusal to sign the NRA code, and for his generally uncooperative attitude toward the government. These reasons were not given: Mr. Ford expressed himself heartily in accord with the "ideal behind the NRA"; he added that the present efforts were, although crude, a start in the right direction. "Why should we be opposed...