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...When Meier & Frank, the biggest department store (and the biggest advertiser) in Portland, Ore., was charged with unfair labor practices last fall, neither the morning Portland Oregonian (circ. 214,916) nor the rival evening Oregon Journal (circ. 190,844) covered the story. Both papers privately said that it was merely an oversight, that they would report the National Labor Relations Board's final decision in the case in full (TIME...
...Meier & Frank, a 14-story, block-square department store in Portland, Ore., is the biggest in the Pacific Northwest. It is also easily the biggest advertiser (10% of the linage) in Portland's two daily newspapers, the morning Oregonian (circ. 213,135) and the evening Oregon Journal (circ...
...National Committeeman Monroe Sweetland accused the two Portland dailies of suppressing news about their biggest advertiser. An A.F.L. union had accused store officials of unfair labor practices. Hearings on the charges had been held for eight days last month, but, wrote Monroe Sweetland, "Not one news story of the Meier & Frank case appeared in the Portland press...
Prescription. In St. Louis, after hiccuping for eight days, Robert Meier explained how he had been cured: a stranger called on him, lit two black candles taken from a black bag, tied a string to a wet noodle and draped the string over Meier's head with the noodle hanging between his eyes...
...York Post Home News (circ. 385,151), which has 25 columnists already, last week added one more. The newcomer: Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr., 31, who won a Pulitzer prize for his Age of Jackson (TIME, Oct. 22, 1945), is now at work on the Age of Franklin D. Roosevelt. An associate professor of history at Harvard, Schlesinger is writing a weekly column from the vantage point of a "historian looking at the news...