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When the Washington Daily News delightedly broke this story, Senator Borah dismissed it as nonsense. Newshawks-ap-pealed to Mrs. Borah. Bubbled she: "It would be too bad to spoil such a beautiful, sensational story. It happened right between our house and Kalorama corner on busy Connecticut Avenue. It was one of those bitter nights...
Associated Press today feeds financial news to 1,300 newspapers. A huge service requiring 25,000 miles of wire for its exclusive use, AP's financial department is headed by able young Claude Jagger. Hearstpapers feature the syndicated optimism of B. (for Bertie) C. (for Charles) Forbes and the more informative comment of Merryle Stanley Rukeyser...
After he had consented to feed starving Belgium, Mr. Hoover borrowed Newsman Allen from AP to do his publicity. The Press, especially in the U. S., was promptly flooded with news of the prodigious feats of organization, diplomacy and greathearted endurance by which a modest U. S. engineer was keeping an entire nation alive. When Mr. Hoover went home to be U. S. Food Administrator, Ben Allen went with him. Their joint efforts added a new word, "Hooverize," to the national vocabulary, made Mr. Hoover and his food edicts an intimate part of the daily life of every man, woman...
...last July were on the alert for a test case which would let the Government put its best foot foremost. Last October, Associated Press abruptly discharged one of its Manhattan staffmen named Morris Watson, explained that after seven years it was "dissatisfied with his services." Newsman Watson countercharged that AP had violated the Labor Act by firing him because he was a vice president of the American Newspaper Guild, newshawks' fledgling union with which AP had just refused to bargain concerning its shift from a five-day to a six-day week...
Twice has the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that AP news is produce moving in interstate commerce. Lively, liberal little Manhattan Lawyer Morris Ernst, crusader for labor rights and good friend of the New Deal, rushed Guildman Watson's charge to the National Labor Relations Board's regional offices in Manhattan. Last week Regional Director Eleanore Morehouse Herrick served a complaint of Labor Act violation on AP, ordered hearings to begin early next month...