Word: herex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...empire was tottering. Hearst was getting on and Joe Connolly was expected to get the empire in order before the old man died. He amputated radio stations, shuffled executives, chopped the Chicago Herald and Examiner down to tabloid size. But Connolly could not be everywhere at once. When the Herex and Chicago American units of the American Newspaper Guild struck, Connolly put his cool, alert assistant, Jacob ("Gorty") Gortatowsky, at the conference table...
...with Joe Connolly, one of Gorty's biggest immediate problems was the struck Herex (now merged with the American). When Gorty sat down with the Newspaper Guild in Chicago last July, he let it be known that he was no Guild-hater. Guildsmen watched him chain-smoke 50? Corona Coronas, called him a "nice guy . . . reasonable . . . calm. "Last week they hoped that Gorty would be the man to settle the longest strike (one year old on Dec. 5) the Guild has ever...
Weakest spot in the weakened Hearst empire has for many months been the Chicago Herald & Examiner. Further devitalized by a Newspaper Guild strike, which cost it an estimated $30,000 a week in advertising revenue, the Herex was kept going for two reasons: 1) it accounted for 1,000,000 circulation of Hearst's rich American Weekly; 2) it was one of Chicago's two morning newspapers. Last week the bankers who manage the Hearst finances decided they could no longer carry the Herex. This week it merged with the evening American, leaving...
...Herex was the eighth Hearstpaper to fold in two years, after Portland's News-Telegram (see above) the 80th U. S. daily newspaper...
...were asked to adopt strikers, paying $5 a week for maintenance. Last week the Guild placed its 89th strike baby. The adopter: CIO Chieftain John Llewellyn Lewis, who already has two children of his own. The adoptee: 22-year-old Ann Tonchick, good-humored, unglamorous onetime clerk in the Herex's bookkeeping department, who has never seen her foster father but is all set to call him "Pappa...