Word: scoops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...this beat exceptional: when it happened opposition services were still smarting over I. N. S.'s more-than-24-hour scoop on Germany's decision to withdraw from the League of Nations...
...Arizona newsreaders it might have seemed that the real "Arizona scandal" was the fact that an outside newspaper could advertise for a week in advance a local news sensation without danger of having its scoop spoiled by local courage and enterprise. Leading Arizona papers are Phoenix's two dailies, the Republic and the Gazette, owned by the same company...