Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demands suddenly fell into the lap of the U. S. Press, it was poorly prepared. The number of Grade A Labor specialists among reporters could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Also the story was popping in too many places for any paper to cover it with one man. First move was to handle it like the flood, rush an ace reporter (but not necessarily a Labor specialist) to the scene of greatest violence, rely on the press associations for complete coverage, and tell Washington correspondents to get some quotes from John L. Lewis, William Green, and Government...
...Chicago the dispatches of Edwin A. Lahey of the Daily News have stood out for their fairness, though his boss, Colonel Frank Knox, has no love for the C.I.O. Lahey, who previously had been covering the local garbage situation, was at the theatre seeing an Ibsen play on the evening of Jan. 2 when he was told to take the midnight train to Detroit. There was hardly a day from then on that Chicago did not see a Lahey story from the strike front. Once he got home for a few days and promptly went out to cover the Fansteel...
...Canning & Pickle Workers' Union against Heinz Co., which had recognized a company union for collective bargaining. Fathers Rice & Hensler went down to the pickle workers' picket line, hoisted signs declaring "The Catholic Radical Alliance supports the Heinz strikers." Horrified, the pickets begged the priests to cover the word "Radical" on their signs. Night before an election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board, the three priests appeared at a mass meeting of Heinz workers, Monsignor O'Toole telling his predominantly Catholic audience that "modern finance-capitalism" is as Godless as Communism. The Pickle Workers' Union...
Under the press of Depression, the Installment Plan was asked to move a type of merchandise which could not be repossessed or was worn out before it was paid for. Among credit men this merchandise has the name "soft goods." Department store installments may cover anything from tires to toilet articles. Oddest use of installment selling is for services, ranging from steamship passage to permanent waves...