Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reply, filed in Supreme Court of New York County, onetime Chicago Tribune Reporter Rascoe charges Mr. Annenberg, while in employ of the Chicago Hearst papers "directed the activities of various sluggers and gunmen who were hired by him for the purpose of breaking up and destroying the carrier . . . system of ... the Chicago Tribune. . . . Sluggers . . . intimidated dealers . . . wrecked their stands and destroyed copies of ... the Tribune...
...Gallico last week began another chapter. Back from his snuggery-workshop on the English Channel, Writer Gallico entered the employ of William Randolph Hearst's International News Service. A high-priced super roving reporter, Paul Gallico, whose loyal readership followed him from the sport section of the New York News to the Saturday Evening Post, took as his assignment the Philadelphia child-murder case, described the arraignment of a 19-year-old girl defendant with true sob-stuff...
Barely out of Columbia, he married red-headed Alva Taylor. Because he was the son-in-law of a famed Chicago Tribune columnist, the late Bert Leston Taylor, Gallico was made welcome on the Tribune's New York cousin, lusty Daily News. Hired to review movies, he was soon kicked downstairs to the sports department where he reigned as editor and columnist for 14 years, including a brief spell when he was also assistant managing editor. He painfully learned skiing, flying and other sports he wrote about. It made good copy...
Moving into temporary two-room quarters on the 22nd floor of the Empire State Building, New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia discussed with Empire State's President Alfred E. Smith alterations currently under way in his City Hall executive offices. Said Landlord Smith: "City Hall looks like it needs to be sent to the laundry. You ought to sandblast it." Tenant LaGuardia: "That would be like polishing the dust off a bottle of old wine...
...rise of a third, if unwritten policy-Anti-New Deal. The high tide of reaction was reached in 1935, when the most charitable liberal observation was the New Republic's: that that year's convention was a "perfect example of Bourbonism in full flower." Even the New York Times remarked caustically that "spokesmen for business organizations ought not to sound like the Chairman of the Republican National Committee...