Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Why. Asked, as it often is, why it should venture beyond the publishing field into the cinema field, TIME replies that all news is its province, regardless of the method of presenting it to the public. Syndicated journalism may have eliminated the silver-tongued reporters of the Frank Ward O...
Last May Dean Sothern Jennings lost his job as a rewrite man on William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Call-Bulletin because, against office orders, he insisted on attending the Guild convention in St. Paul. When after much transcontinental haggling the paper refused to reinstate him, the National Labor...
Meanwhile "Assistant President" Donald Richberg had taken the publishers' side in what had become, on the surface, a highly legalistic dispute. Ignoring the Labor Board's recommendation, NRA turned the Jennings case testimony over to the Newspaper Industrial Board for "recommendation." Temporarily appeased, Mr. Davis cautiously announced he...
Few observers expected the Industrial Board to accomplish anything. Its eight members are almost always deadlocked, and a ninth impartial member can be called in only by a majority vote. Back to NRA went the Jennings case, and Mr. Davis again unlimbered his big gun, this time definitely calling a...
Into the air sailed the publishers' collective hat. To them the President's order was a victory for "freedom of the Press." Mr. Davis called it a "satisfactory adjustment," canceled the convention call.