Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the story that appeared last week on the front pages of the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, and in many another newspaper. Citizens chuckled throughout the land. Without waiting to check the facts the Republican National Committee broadcast the yarn in their daily press release and embroidered it with verse...
...yarn came in from McFaul it was written in a kind of wooden style. So I polished it up a bit before sending it along to the Boston Herald. Of course, if I was writing for the New York Sun, I'd have polished it up a bit more. ... As a matter of fact the way the story came through it said six kinds of pie, but I jacked it up to eight. I figured the story must be pretty near right. There isn't anybody in Washington County [_i. e., 'Quoddy, Perry, Calais] with enough brains...
When a young man who said he was Pledge Brown from the Ketchikan (Alaska) Chronicle some months ago offered us a yarn on New Deal's Matanuska Valley as "new stuff . . . I'm full of it ... great for a Republican sheet," the Daily Courier's wise, white-haired Managing Editor E. R. Moore politely declined, later explained it didn't ring true...
Editor Page was more amused than angry. The Forum, however, having paid $75 for the piece, which it had not yet printed, was boiling. When investigation showed that the yarn was highly inaccurate, had appeared in print week before in the Sunday Worker, Editor Leach bleated to the National Publishers Association. That organization's warning broadside uncovered the news that Brown had worked his swindle on two other magazines: Scribner's, for $125; North American Review, for $75. Neither had yet published the story. In each case Brown got his money quickly by saying he had to catch...
...November it was printed in the Topeka (Kansas) Capital. Topeka's Capper's Weekly also swallowed it. In December the Kansas City Journal-Post published it. By April Pledge Brown had reached Washington, where the rich and cautious Sunday Star was glad to buy his threadbare yarn...