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...saying, Publisher Russell announced he would discharge 16 employes-25% of his staff-promised to fire a like number after Christmas. Actually only eight Ledger men were discharged. These, said Publisher Russell, were out for economy...
...Newark is a tabloid newspaper called the Ledger, published by a brawny, hot-tempered Westerner named Lucius T. Russell Sr. Setting himself up in Newark some 15 years ago, Publisher Russell attracted instant attention with a local vice crusade, splashed pictures of Newark brothels with names of the property owners daily on the Ledger's front.page. His crack rewrite man was Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, later to win the Pulitzer Prize for his European correspondence for the old New York Evening Post (TIME...
...Newark Newspaper Guild tried to engage in collective bargaining. An importunate Guild committeeman, after thrice vainly requesting an interview with him, mentioned section 7 (a) and the Regional Labor Board in a letter. Fortnight ago Publisher Russell answered by posting a notice on the Ledger bulletin board...
...slightest concerned about...the committee going before the Regional Labor Board, but I will make it quite nervous for quite a number of the Ledger chapter personnel if the thing ever reaches that point. You can go to all the regional boards you damn please but you will get no relief from the Ledger until you come to me personally...
...Kansas City. The house alone cost $575,226.07. Inside was placed a profusion of Austrian hand-tufted carpets, tapestries, urns, silverware, china, pictures, bric-a-brac, chandeliers, for which Mr. Long paid $207,763.57. There were Oriental rugs in every bathroom. House and contents were listed on his personal ledger as an $11 asset. Last week more than 1,000 Kansas Citizens gratified a long-cherished ambition to see the inside of the Long house. Up for auction was everything Lumberman Long possessed except the sets of Dickens, Eliot and Bulwer-Lytton which lined the walls of the little...