Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commuters named were: A. S. Cavallo '48, R. A. Fitzgerald, Jr. '46, Sewell Guild '45, John H. Murray '41, and Steven J. Stadler '48; while Eliot House men cited were: Edward W. M. Bryant '50, G. H. Montgomery '45, D. G. Outerbridge '46, S. Spielberger '49, John M. Teem '50, and Louis A. Williams...
...beside their desks, seldom saw their families. At week's end Saylor rasped: "There's nobody here getting tired. We're getting as much sleep as we always did. We're just giving up our spare time." Shrewd Dave Stern, first publisher to sign a Guild contract (TIME, Nov. 18), was far from ready to dicker on Guild terms ($100 a week for experienced reporters). He bought space in other newspapers and trade journals to announce the biggest November advertising and circulation in the Record's history...
...Guild strike against Hearst's Los Angeles evening Herald & Express for about the same terms demanded of J. David Stern ended after 83 days. The Guild had asked for a 40% pay boost, settled for 14%. Cried the Herald & Express in a front-page editorial: "It was a senseless strike . . . the workers lost money, the newspaper lost money . . . the public of Southern California was deprived of its greatest daily newspaper...
...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). The Old Maid, with Judith Anderson, Helen Menken...
...Christopher Morley, were built to sell literary goods whether they were silk purses or sows' ears. In the marts of trade, if not of letters, 20 or 30 book clubs were in bustling operation, and the top two-Book-of-the-Month and its tawdrier sister, Literary Guild-together claimed nearly 2,250,000 "members," i.e., consistent buyers of wares. Among 1946's newest sales organizations: the Family Reading Club-"will appeal to the finer instincts . . . the sanctity of the home," and The Executive Book Club-"for every businessman . . . lawyer . . . banker...