Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order to get and hold these contracts, you might at some future date, have to show increasing circulation, and it will be this writer's delight to keep said circulation below normal. I have spent my last 15? for TIME...
...news almost as ideal as the traditional man-bites-dog story, because Nominee Hoover is customarily camera-shy and posing with other celebrities has been Fielder Ruth's routine for years. What no writer ventured to mention as a possible explanation, aside from professional jealousy and personal politics, was that the man who, as owner of the Yankees, contracts for Fielder Ruth's services, is Col. Jacob Ruppert, onetime beer-brewer. "If Babe Ruth ever posed with any Dry," said a fan, "Jake Ruppert'd slap a fine on him quicker...
...Richards, onetime junior singles champion, onetime Davis Cup defender, whose attempt to justify his turning professional brought forth lame excuses, and turned away many who otherwise might have given him their support. The other was William Tatem Tilden II, who last week was found guilty of breaking the player-writer rule of the U. S. L. T. A. and punished by indefinite banishment from amateur tennis...
...plea of guilty; and 2) he released for publication a letter which he wrote to President Samuel H. Collom, of the U. S. L. T. A., wherein he said, among other things, that he "did not intentionally violate or attempt to evade the spirit or letter of the [player-writer] rule and to the best of my knowledge articles under dispute do not violate the rule." This constitutes either falsehood or an anaemic revival of his 1925 alibi, when he was in a similar difficulty for a similar offense...
Died. Henry Clay ("Dick") Silver, 54, reporter, broker, political writer, who stood beside President McKinley when he was assassinated; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...