Word: sinnott
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...next. Most of them had never been in Washington professionally. Regular correspondents on the sidelines watched with unholy delight while their bosses showed their clumsiness at crossexamination. But among the editors was one old hand at picking up hot pokers held out by government officials. He was Arthur Joseph Sinnott, managing editor of the rich and prosperous Newark Evening News, biggest and best daily in New Jersey...
Managing Editor Sinnott, smart and Scotch, went to work for the News 29 years ago when he was 19. In 1912 he was sent to Washington where he remained until 1925, when the Scudders recalled him to Newark to take complete charge of their newspaper in fact if not in name. He was a crack Washington correspondent, would have made a crack politician. Alert, shrewd, tart, he took no windy nonsense from any Senator. From his desk in the Colorado Building he could gather news direct by telephone from practically every Government official in town except the President...
...Senate of the United States!" cried House Doorkeeper Joseph Sinnott, swinging wide the baize & leather portals. The Senators had not been a minute too soon, for the clock over the Speaker's desk said 1:38 when President Roosevelt took his place beneath it, amid 60 seconds' wild cheering, to address the 73rd Congress in joint session...
Bang! Blood spurted through the white hair of William Sinnott, an oldtime New York City detective who used to guard Governor Roosevelt and, who, vacationing in Florida, had come to watch the doings from the bandstand...
Died. Nicholas John Sinnott, 59, of The Dalles, Ore., member of the U. S. Court of Claims; in Washington, D. C.; of heart failure...