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...grade when his father died. A kindly teacher pieced out Marlen's book learning after hours, "graduated" him in her front parlor. At 15 he took to newspaper work, liked it, never lacked for a good job thereafter. He reported first for the Cleveland Press, worked on the Hearstian New York Evening Journal, was Eastern manager of Newspaper Enterprise Association. In 1912 he helped organize United Press, then edited the Philadelphia News-Post and was proud to be jailed overnight on a criminal libel charge brought and dropped by a hoodlum politician. During the War, Editor Pew worked...
Second big yell went up when the Detroit Guild wired in that Wayne County's Prosecutor Duncan C. ("Dune") McCrea, long at outs with the Hearstian Detroit Times, was thinking of instituting a $100,000 libel suit against the paper for stating that he was a member of the terroristic Black Legion organization, and that if he did he would donate any proceeds from the suit to the Newspaper Guild to help fight for "underpaid Hearst employes...
...their convention, serious Guildmen saw that in its three years of existence the Guild had yet to win a concession from its archenemies, William Randolph Hearst and the conservative directors of the Associated Press. Of this, two Guild martyrs at the convention, handsome Dean Sothern Jennings, fired by the Hearstian San Francisco Call-Bulletin two years ago, and Morris Watson, baldish A. P. man whose ousting will be argued clear to the Supreme Court, were walking examples. Moreover, Guild officials frankly admitted membership had not increased as they hoped. Once the Guild had 10,000 newshawks signed up. Half...
...their contracts with the Scripps-Howard Cleveland Press, Publisher Julius David Stern's New York Post and Philadelphia Record, and the huge, tabloid New York Daily News, to the fact that Guild and labor support had kept alive a bitter strike of 25 Milwaukee Guildmen against the Hearstian News since last February. Outside the four founding cities, strong Guilds had grown in Boston, Philadelphia, northern California, St. Louis and Washington, D. C. Chicago was weak, but New York, with 1,551 active Guildmen, was the national tower of moral and financial strength...
More conscious was Hearstian Humorist Arthur ("Bugs") Baer's attempt to be funny. Sample crack...