Word: hathway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greene told Managing Editor Alan Hathway of the offer, was instructed to play along-under the surveillance of Nassau County police detectives. Greene reported that he collected a total of $230 from Harris on two occasions. After the second payment, Harris, who denied all, was arrested, released on $500 bond. Maximum penalty for violating a little-known law: $500 and a year's jail term...
Newsday staffers, who have voted against the Newspaper Guild, are paid at about the national Guild scale plus a bonus of close to 6% every year. "To prevent office politics." all five of Newsday's top executives (Managing Editor Hathway; Ad Manager Ernest Levy, 55; Business Manager Harold Ferguson, 47; Production Manager Allan Woods, 41; Circulation Manager Jack Mullen, 43) get the same salary. Since 85% of its circulation is home-delivered, Newsday has one of the largest forces of carrier boys (3,000) in the U.S. The paper paternally treats the most enterprising ones royally to new bikes...
Newsday (circ. 190,151) won the prize for its campaign exposing corruption and graft at New York's trotting tracks (TIME, Oct. 19). Four years ago, Newsday Managing Editor Alan Hathway, an alumnus of the New York tabloid News, started hammering at the Roosevelt Raceway, about half a mile from Newsday's plant, charged that Long Island's Building Trades Boss (A.F.L.) William De Koning was shaking down builders and track employees for close to $1,000,000 a year. Governor Thomas E. Dewey appointed a special commission to clean up the raceways, and last month Labor...
...Afraid of No One." Managing Editor Hathway's campaign against De Koning was hardly personal. Ever since he came to Newsday eleven years ago from the New York Daily News, Hathway has been deluged with tips and complaints about De Koning's rough, highhanded labor tactics. When De Koning ("I ain't afraid of no one") moved in to take over control of the raceway's employees, Hathway set his reporters to work. Newsday discovered that De Koning's union members, to hold their jobs at the track, were forced to kick back part...
...story didn't stop with De Koning. Newsday told how the Roosevelt owners, led by Racketeer Lucky Luciano's onetime lawyer, George Morton Levy, got control of the Yonkers track. In a byline copyright interview with Hathway, Lawyer Levy admitted his group had lobbied a law through the New York State legislature that prevented the Yonkers track from getting a harness-racing franchise, thus forcing it to sell control at a low price (estimated at $2,000,000) to the Roosevelt group. Among the Roosevelt-Yonkers owners: Nassau County Republican Boss J. Russel Sprague (who paid only...