Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prensa's publisher and principal owner, Don Ezequiel P. Paz. Son of the late Dr. José C. Paz, who turned out the first copy of La Prensa 65 years ago on a tiny hand press, Don Ezequiel started to work around the shop as a youngster in 1896, took full charge while still a young man. He devoted his life completely to his newspaper, spent nearly all his waking hours in his incredibly ornate office, denied himself to practically all callers except his editors. Past 60, of nervous temperament, he lives nearly half the year at his French...
...Fayetteville Tribune In boom times the Spencer Times-Record ran as high as 60 pages, led the U. S. weekly field in display advertising. Current average is about twelve pages. Average staff is two men per paper. The editor-manager-printer is usually a youngster. He is expected to fill his sheet with personal notes and local news, is allowed little syndicated "boiler plate." If news is non-existent he may, in emergency, skip an issue, but must make it up some day because the law requires him to produce 52 issues a year. Sometimes he suddenly runs...
Driving with his wife through Muncy, Pa., on his way from Washington to his McCook, Neb. home, 73-year-old Senator George William Norris slowed down to 15 m.p.h. to look around for a tourist home. Suddenly a 9-year-old youngster darted in front of the machine. Senator Norris swerved, braked-but too late. The front wheel of the car passed over the boy's body, killed him. Senator & Mrs. Norris attended the funeral, were cleared by a coroner's jury, drove carefully on toward McCook...
...last week rolled a Pullman car on whose sides, in gilt letters, was printed ST. PETER. Presently a small boy clambered aboard. Within he discovered a chapel, an altar complete with tabernacle, candlesticks and altar cloth. Crossing himself he said a prayer, departed. Soon another youngster appeared. Of a priest reading on the observation platform of ST. PETER he asked: "Can you use an altar boy?" Yes, Rev. Cornelius Edward Murphy could. Next morning at mass he employed the services of the first moppet, who had sent his small brother to negotiate the job. This week Father Murphy, youngish Roman...
...under 18 years. The 1930 census showed 21,700 under 16 years. The National Child Labor Committee reckons 100,000 under 16, 50,000 under 14. The totals include not only the tattered urchin hawking his wares at street corners in sun or rain but also the well-fed youngster who puts in an hour or two after school serving a delivery route in the residential district. But whatever their number and their methods of work, U. S. newsboys were this week's issue in the long drawn-out warfare of the American Newspaper Publishers Association against NRA. When...