Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporters and editors of the yellow papers act as pressagents for these criminals. . . . The people, having been terrorized by the pressagents, are easier prey for them. [Moreover] every police chief knows that a hunted criminal watches the sensational newspapers to keep him posted on the developments of the search for him. . . ." Why should yellow newspapers be able to get and print such news? Editor Bingay was sympathetic. "A courageous police chief, a fearless prosecutor, or a high-minded judge who . . . fights against such outrageous newspaper conduct finds himself the storm centre of a lot of trumped-up charges...
...result of a frozen oil line. He needed another plane. A Brooklyn brewer whom he had never met turned out to be his pillar of hope. When Jimmie Mattern was first lost, a group of friends at Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. were determined to find him. In their search for funds someone introduced them to Irving Friedman, sleek president of Brooklyn's Kings Brewery. Brewer Friedman is no flyer. But "they sounded so sincere, don't you know?" He gave them money to buy the sturdy old Bellanca which Pangborn & Herndon flew around the world...
...Hudson River ferry. Back & forth between Manhattan and New Jersey, Banker Harriman rode six times on different boats, gazing moodily at the water. Twice he started to climb over the rail, was hauled back by deckhands who failed to recognize him until hours later when they heard of the search. They last saw him driving away from the Manhattan pier...
Besides a varied career as an explorer he has written many books, technical and popular. Among his best known works are "Old Mother Earth," and "Science in Search...
Recently three Japanese crabbers, from the fishing vessel Fumi Maru, were said to have attempted to land at Cape Kronotsky, Kamchatka, in a small boat in search for water. Spy scares are thicker than crabs on the cape. A Soviet patrol was reported to have surprised them, shot them down. In Moscow Japanese Ambassador Tamekichi Ota instantly demanded permission for the Japanese Consul at Petropavlovsk to board the Japanese destroyer Tachikaze, visit the scene of the affair and make a report. It was refused on the grounds that the Tachikaze was a warship, but the Consul was given permission...