Word: littick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were some bad accidents in the mines, and Earl Jones did not like the way the Zanesville morning Times-Recorder and evening Signal (both owned by Father William Oliver, Sons Orville Beck and Henry Clay Littick) reported what happened. Nor did he like it when the Litticks played up several suits against him-one for damage allegedly done by his mine wastes to adjoining lands...
Before the News Building was up, the fight began. The Littick family did not plan to let their Zanesville newspaper monopoly go without a struggle. Publisher of the News is Clark Beach, who retired as executive editor of the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette in 1936, was coaxed back to work by Earl Jones. Clark Beach had signed a contract form with a United Pressagent, given him a check for several weeks' service in advance. But the contract was still to be accepted by U. P.'s Manhattan office when the Litticks stepped in and bought U. P. service...
Then Clark Beach went to International News Service and found the Litticks had signed for that too. Said I. N. S.: "We prefer to deal with well-established papers." They had given the Litticks an exclusive contract, and since the Littick papers already held an Associated Press franchise, the News was left without any major wire service...
...Littick contract with U. P. is not exclusive-U. P. is still free to sign with the News if it wishes. But if it did, the Litticks would obviously be annoyed-and to U. P., as to I. N. S., the Littick papers are the safest bet. According to U. P., the terms Earl Jones's Beach offered were "unreasonable," therefore not acceptable to the home office. Now Earl Jones threatens to sue, in the hope that he can compel U. P. to give him the wire for which he feels that he contracted. Meanwhile the Litticks are using...
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