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...desks, which lacks two drawers, sits a dreary-looking little man with keen eyes, thinning blond hair, deep lines around his mouth. He wears a grey alpaca office coat. He is Arthur Francis Corrigan, 44, "boss" of the press room and dean of legmen in The Times Square and Hell's Kitchen districts. Last week the press room boys gave "the boss" a party because he had just rounded out 20 years on the job, ten of them at West Side Court. A magistrate was toastmaster, two others made speeches. Six deputy district attorneys, many a police inspector, dozens...
...Reporter Corrigan works for no newspaper, yet New York City's dailies could hardly get along without him. He is a district man for City News Association, which, covers Manhattan and The Bronx (pop.: 3,170,000) exactly as the Associated Press covers the world. He and 60 others like him keep 24-hour watch over every police station, every court, every jail, every hospital, every morgue and every administrative office in the two boroughs. Whenever and wherever news breaks City Newsmen are usually the first to spot it. They tell their office and their office tells the newspapers...
Like most City News legmen, "Boss"' Corrigan, who started as an office boy, rarely wrote a story in his 20 years. He gathers his data from the complaint room, from the little Press table in the court room, from innumerable policemen, lawyers, court attendants, judges of his acquaintance. He makes copious notes, descends to his dungeon desk and telephones his office. Far downtown near Park Row one of four lightning-fast rewrite men takes Reporter Corrigan's tale, whips it into a precise, minutely detailed, colorless but accurate story. Page by page it is teletyped to the newspaper...
...from Henry Ford and buy or build their own steel plants. Steel's biggest customers resent the fact that under the steel code they no longer get discounts on their orders. Last week it was no sooner discovered that General Motors was dickering for an option on Corrigan-McKinney Steel Co., than it was learned that negotiations had been dropped...
...Attorney General indict him? The steel business is currently improving, has little grudge against the Government. President Roosevelt has told friends: "I've gotten to like that fellow Myron Taylor [U. S. Steel] since I've seen so much of him." Only last week Donald B. Gillies (Corrigan-McKinney Steel) told the American Mining Congress that his industry "whole-heartedly approves the President's Recovery program." Steelman Weir was himself one of the first to fall in line last summer. But so long as U. S. steelmasters have an ingot to their names they will resist detested...