Word: scoops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Have Made the World Believe Chicago is the Crime Centre of America," screamed a double page headline. Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, Tribune publisher, was pictured as patronizing Alphonse Capone, of promising the gangster "a square deal" in return for his averting a Tribune delivery truck strike. The greatest Thompson scoop was an unpublished Tribune obituary prepared last year when the Mayor was close to death (see p. 26). On the back page...
...Finger Points (First National). Based on last summer's murder of Alfred "Jake" Lingle, racketeer-reporter for the Chicago Tribune, this picture presents Richard Barthelmess as a cool but callow newshawk who grows rich by blackmailing gangsters. Disappointed in the rewards consequent upon his first scoop, the reporter offers to conceal further news of illegal enterprises if their promoters share the profits with him. When another reporter gets the story of a gangland gambling layout, gangsters blame the racketeer-reporter, perforate him. Routine exaggerations?of a hardboiled city editor, a thundering "Big Guy''?combine to make The Finger Points...
...courts building. Eight reporters are gathered to report the execution of a murderer. Hildy Johnson, the reporter who wants to quit his job, is just leaving when the murderer escapes from jail and makes his way into the press room through a window. Overcome by the opportunity for a scoop, Hildy Johnson hides the murderer in a rolltop desk, stays to write the story.? Finally the murderer is reprieved, Hildy Johnson (Pat O'Brien) entrains with his girl (Mary Brian...
...however, make many more contacts, of a different sort, and get such an intimate knowledge of the University as is equaled by few. A life divided between interviewing professors and prominent visitors, scribbling down notes, covering sporting events, and wildly rushing through the streets of Cambridge to save a scoop from other competitors--such is the work of the eight weeks, which, if nothing else, is guaranteed to give a person something to tell his grandchildren about...
...eliminate the last shreds of would-be liberalism from this magnificent bequest, and at the same time "scoop" all the other publications who were too weak-kneed to print it, by stating that the will specifically forbade admission to these schools of any member of the Hebraic race...