Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a precocious pupil that, at the age of 17, he got a commission to do a number of frescoes in Padua's Ovetari Chapel. From then on his future seemed secure. He married the daughter of the painter Jacopo Bellini; the Marchese Francesco Gonzaga made him a knight, and Lorenzo the Magnificent sang his praises...
...export strategy was a desperation maneuver by pressmen of John S. Knight's Miami paper, the Herald (circ. 336,211). When the pressmen's contract expired earlier this summer. Knight coldly pointed to their high overtime record (an average $8,700 a month since January), proposed a modest pay hike if the pressmen would agree to shave the overtime. When the pressmen walked out on Aug. 1, Knight was ready for them: he sent in an emergency press crew, and the Herald never missed an issue...
Frustrated at home, the pressmen sent picket contingents to Akron, where Knight publishes the Beacon Journal, and to Charlotte, N.C., where he has two papers, the News and the Observer. The union emissaries failed in both cities: local pressmen ignored the picket lines. But when another six-man Miami team reached Detroit, the Free Press's sympathetic pressmen walked out, and the paper closed down...
...side issue contributed to the union's success in Detroit. Since the death of Hearst's Detroit Times last November, the city's newspaper scene has been marked by a fierce contest for subscribers between Knight's morning Free Press (573,273) and the independent News (733,583). The two papers have an agreement that binds them, under certain conditions, to shut down if either is silenced by a strike. But the News decided that the chance to steal a march on Jack Knight was too good to miss. It went right on printing...
Despite the News's defection. Knight's exported trouble was over at week's end. Claiming that the picketers were guilty of imposing a secondary boycott, the Free Press won a court injunction against the Miamians, hustled back into print...