Word: slam-bang
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More than any other city except New York, vigorous, slam-bang Chicago has contributed its newspaper flavor and traditions to U.S. journalism. In the Chicago tradition are bloody circulation wars, roughshod crime reporters, brawling editorial pages, fierce competition in getting and selling the news. Last week a man with a winning streak stepped into what he called this "hardball league." From the estate of the late Frank Knox he bought (for $2,151,537.88 cash) control of the Daily News...
...156th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (2,000,000 communicants) met in Chicago's neo-Gothic Fourth Presbyterian Church. To a jampacked audience assembled to elect his successor, lean, ascetic-looking, scholarly Henry Sloane Coffin finished his term as moderator with a slam-bang speech...
Other details of the Navy's slam-bang operation would have to wait. But one other fact was clear at week's end: the Navy had shown Japan that no longer is any island base beyond the striking range of Spruance's Central Pacific fleet. The overfeared power of land-based air power had been set aside by greater air power from...
Last week the Brazilian Government was deep in a slam-bang fight to keep prices down. Latest measure: an order compelling food stores to stock essential foods, sell them at a 10% maximum profit...
...Marines, on the whole, use more straightforward, slam-bang methods. Much has been made of the fact that they take very few prisoners. That is not due to innate brutality; it is simply a matter of killing or being killed...