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...Body. The durable Hearstling who caused all this commotion had been tempered in a harsh and gaudy school. At 19, Jack Campbell got a $6-a-week reporter's job on the San Francisco Chronicle, and covered the Barbary Coast when there was at least one good murder story every week. After one man was kidnaped and shot, Campbell hired a pack of bloodhounds and set out to follow the bloodstains. When the dogs yelped their way to a house, Campbell burst in the door and found a woman nursing a nosebleed. But after this false start, Campbell scooped...
...told a friend: "Humanity's welfare is far more vital than my desires in life." He worked briefly as a puddler in a steel foundry-until one day he received his reward for devotion to the cause. He was put on the Communist Party payroll as a $15-a-week instructor. The Waldrons went their separate ways, Nora to go into show business, Amelia to work in a library. Frankie, seedy-looking and burning-eyed, with a shock of wild hair, went off to teach Marxist economy at a youth seminar at a Finnish community in Woodland, Wash...
...publishers' "final offer" of a $10-a-week wage boost was rejected three weeks ago by the A.F.L. International Typographical Union, which wanted a $16.50-a-week raise. The 1,500 printers were under no heavy pressure to settle; they got union benefits ranging up to $60 a week. (Some of the strikers had found work in job shops; others had shifted to newspapers in nearby cities.) The publishers were under no pressure to settle either. They had so well ironed out the mechanical wrinkles of printing by Vari-Typers and similar machines that the Chicago Daily News...
...Washington, A.F.L. pressmen and stereotypers won $6-a-week increases and two-year contracts after a strike that shut down all four daily papers for three days...
...cutthroat textile business, Manhattan-born Jake Schwab fought his way up from scratch. He left high school at 16 to work at odd jobs. At 20, he got a $15-a-week stock clerk's job with Cohn-Hall-*Marx, a big textile converter. Young Jake had a knack for figures, studied nights to improve it. By 1928 he had risen to treasurer. In that year, Bankers Kidder, Peabody & Co. raised about $20 million to make Cohn-Hall-Marx the base of a textile pyramid integrating many different businesses in the cotton-rayon industry. The new giant was United...