Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Threatening their grail, they all knew without crusading Jimmy Stahlman telling them, was the American Newspaper Guild, freshly allied with C.I.O. In its annual convention in St. Louis last month, the Guild had nailed to its new platform a plank demanding a "Guild shop" (TIME, June 21). That meant that although an employer could still hire whatever news or editorial worker he wished, the Guild would insist that the worker join the Guild within 30 days thereafter. Anyone refusing to join should be summarily dismissed. To Guildsmen such a ukase was more than a shade removed from the closed shop...
...Tribune's McCormick, the publisher of the Chicago Drover's Journal and 558 other publishing executives great and small from up & down the land converged in Chicago last week for a one-day emergency convention. It would be, they had been told, a "most important meeting" (TIME, June 28). At the rallying cry of Nashville's young James Geddes ("Jimmy") Stahlman, busy-bustling new president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, they had come to defend their profession's holy grail, the Freedom of the Press...
While Waukegan's marrying parsons lamented last week, the wedding racketeers of Elkton, Md. gloated. Led by Elkton's famed Marriage-Parlorist William ("Pop") Cann, Maryland's taxi-drivers had beaten a June 30 deadline on a new Maryland marriage law. Although this law, requiring a 48-hr. interim between applying for a license and being wed, took effect June 1, Maryland's Constitution permits the lifting and postponement of its laws by public petition within 30 days. The law is then submitted to popular referendum at the next election of U. S. Representatives.*Maryland taximen...
Having inched the American Medical Association into a position where doctors could see the prudence of recommending the teaching of contraception in medical schools, and of investigating the materials, devices and methods of the art of birth control (TIME, June...
Byrd and his crew of three crashed the America after their June 1927 transatlantic flight, the Byrd Foundation Committee laid the cornerstone for a monument to the flyer: a "sanctuary" for flyers of all nations and an orphanage for children of flyers...