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Minnie's virtue had not been without its rewards, however. At 52 she was assistant secretary-treasurer of the Norfolk Commonwealth Building and Loan Association, and according to an admiring interview in the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch more than two years ago, her $9,000 salary made her "the highest-paid woman building and loan employee in Virginia." Not that anybody doubted that Minnie earned every penny of her salary. For 20 years she had literally run Commonwealth's business, auditing accounts for four branches as well as the home office. She also did all the hiring and firing...
Then he turned to read off a statement by that oft-bloodied but unbowed anti-unionist, Steelman Ernest Weir (in the St. Louis Post Dispatch): "Western nations should proceed on the premise that Russia now wants peace and more stable international relations," Meany snorted. "In my opinion," he said, "Mr. Weir would be serving America better if he renounced his attitude of suspicion and distrust of collective bargaining in our own country before he showered his trust on Khrushchev and his comrades behind the Iron Curtain." Somewhat to Meany's surprise-and probably to theirs too-applause broke from...
...gone to the scene of violence at the invitation of French military authorities and accompanied by five other newsmen. "I not only never talked to the gendarme," he said, "but I am almost sure that he never realized I was filming the incident." France-Soir ran a dispatch from its Algerian correspondent backing up Chas-sagne's story, and a testimonial from his colleagues, who agreed: "He has a horror of violence in any form. It is unthinkable that he might have asked a gendarme to execute a prisoner." In the face of all this, the government retracted...
...Italy, reached the rank of major. He covered the Korean war for the Daily Telegraph, managed to rub most of his fellow correspondents the wrong way until the day he returned from a patrol action with a half-dollar-sized shrapnel hole in his shin and coolly dictated a dispatch...
...London and Manchester. We have had to close out our northern copies early." On the way up, Cecil King passed another press lord. Lord Kemsley, 72, once head of the largest press empire in Europe, not only let all three Glasgow papers go but also sold his Manchester Daily Dispatch (to the Liberal national daily, the News Chronicle}, and folded one of his Sunday papers, the famed old Sunday Chronicle, whose bylines have included...