Word: scoops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first to announce that yellow fever had broken out in Cuba. The Sun reporter there had got the news past the censors by using the words Jack Ochre, and Boss Lord's correct interpretation of Jack Ochre as "yellow fever" gave the Sun a major scoop over its bitter enemies, Hearst's Journal and Pulitzer's World. When Munsey bought the Sun in 1916 its reputation for complete news coverage rivaled that of the Times...
...News bulletins go out not under his name, but those of his clients. Sometimes he summons reporters to his office, gives them copies of a bulletin, elaborately invites further questions, rarely tells more than is in the written "handout." Some newshawks curse him for allegedly spoiling a Hearst scoop on Abby Rockefeller's engagement. When the Hearst man asked him to confirm it, Mr. Lee immediately gave it to all papers...
...WORLD'S FAIR MURDERS-John Ashenhurst-Houghton Mifflin ($2). By a trick of legerdemain, a man murders in view of 10,000 witnesses. A smart young reporter discovers how it was done, and by whom; scores a scoop...
...Collector Duggan "play ball" with the American? He would. A rendezvous with Sherwood and his lawyers was arranged in a Hoboken saloon, where Sherwood was safe from a New York contempt-of-court citation (and $50,000 fine). Next morning the American burst out with the neatest, most spectacular scoop that Manhattan had seen in a long time...
Eight months ago while the Hitlerites scrabbled for power, their chief news- paper, Der Angriff, published a juicy scoop: Lieut. Col. Theodore Düsterberg, Imperial General Staff veteran, drillmaster and second-in-command of the Stahlhelm, veterans' organization, had a Jewish grandfather (TIME, Sept. 19). It was expected that this news alone would be sufficient to force Col. Düsterberg's resignation. Not so; the Stahlhelm rallied round their leader with a proud announcement from their Berlin commander. Major Franz von Stephani: "The Stahlhelm does not judge men by their ancestors but by their deeds...