Word: ap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your report of the proceedings had before the U. S. Supreme Court, in the Associated Press case (TIME, April 19), you refer to the "brilliant legal argument" made by John W. Davis, attorney for the AP; no reference whatsoever was made as to counsel for the respondent. I was present in the bar section of the Court room during the submission of the case and heard the carefully prepared, and if I may borrow the expression, "brilliant legal argument" of one Charles E. Wyzanski, counsel for the Guild; I also listened to the loosely-worded "oration" delivered by John...
Labor loomed with a new meaning. At the secret sessions of the Associated Press whose annual meeting overlapped the ANPA's, the AP's perennial President Frank Brett Noyes, publisher of the Washington Star, was quoted as saying, "I have no squawk to make over the decision." Yet nobody doubted that there had been plenty of squawks at the AP's inner council table. Criticism roiled around the handling of the case by AP's counsel, John W. Davis...
Under his guidance the AP had refused to argue the facts in the early stages of the Watson case and merely denied the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board. That some publishers thought Lawyer Davis had blundered was as obvious as a nosebleed when ANPA's general counsel, Elisha Hanson, reminded the ANPA convention that the Watson case had been presented to the Supreme Court "absolutely bare of any facts in the record before the court to disprove the allegation of a violation of the law by the petitioners...
That the Wagner Act was unconstitutional was denied by the Court in the other NLRA cases decided by the Court that day and the AP's third argument was disposed of by reference to them. Dutifully the AP notified the NLRB to have Reporter Watson return to work the next morning...
...private office which one enters through the anteroom to the men's toilet in Manhattan's Ritz Theatre, Morris Watson made plans to return, at least long enough to collect the accumulated back pay due him under the Labor Board's ruling that the AP must compensate him for the difference between his WPA pay, $200 monthly, and his $295 AP salary. Pleased at his victory and at receiving $1,710, Morris ("Gandhi") Watson was not sure that he wished to abandon what has begun to be a successful theatrical career as director...