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...earnest, thin-thatched Associated Press reporter named Morris Watson organized and headed in the AP's New York office a unit of the American Newspaper Guild, newshawks' union which last month voted to join the American Federation of Labor (TIME, June 8). In 1934 the AP employes were granted a five-day week in return for suspending further efforts at collective bargaining. Last October the five-day AP week was suddenly rescinded. The AP Guildmen thereupon asked their National Executive Board to intercede with AP's General Manager Kent Cooper. Day after the Guild's protesting...
Watson was called in and fired. Last month the AP disregarded a National Labor Relations Board order to reinstate Morris Watson. Last week the Labor Board started the Watson case on its way to the U. S. Supreme Court by asking a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an order to enforce its findings...
Boas observed that nowhere on earth was there such a thing as a pure race, and that the term "race" was a vague and ap proximate one at best. He doubted that there were any "superior" races. To Boas it seemed that if one person was innately superior to another, it was because there was more genetic difference between family lines than between racial types. Anatomists cannot tell the difference between the brains of a Swede and a Negro. They may distinguish the skulls, but it has been shown over & over that neither the size nor shape of the skull...
...AP capped these revelations by announcing that portable transmitters would soon add 25 cities to the 26 already on the Wirephoto circuit...
When the Associated Press proposed two years ago to set up a $1,000,000 Wirephoto service for transmitting news pictures over telephone wires, AP Subscribers William Randolph Hearst and Roy Wilson Howard fought the plan as an "unjustifiable extravagance." First picture transmitted when Wirephoto got going last year was news: an airplane wreck in upper New York State. Other first-day photographs seemed to justify the Hearst-Howard complaints (TIME...