Word: n
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this hard-boiled pronouncement, a prompt reply came not from a Guildsman but from liberal, hard-hitting Publisher Julius David Stern of the Philadelphia Record and New York Post. To A. N. P. A.'s directors Publisher Stern wrote...
...Public Service Commission law he found that "common carriers shall provide such service and facilities as shall be safe and adequate and in all respects just and reasonable." Taking these phrases to mean that the railroad must provide a seat for every ticket, Lawyer Davis brought suit against the N. Y Central for $2.80 fare, $45 damages...
...train, that the officials do as best they can. The road admitted that day-coach passengers unable to find seats may legally take unoccupied seats in Pullmans at no extra cost. Lawyer Davis retorted that several on his trip who tried this were refused permission. Last week the N. Y. Central rested its defense on the ground that Lawyer Davis had not proven that "the railroad failed to make a reasonable effort to provide sufficient accommodations...
...grade crossing six miles east of Toledo, the N. Y. Central's famed 20th Century Limited collided at 75 m.p.h. with a truck tractor and semitrailer owned by Sentle Trucking Co. The railroad promptly sued Harvey H. Sentle, declaring that his driver had been negligent since the railroad operated flasher warnings at the crossing. The driver retorted that he stopped at the warning, but neither saw nor heard the train until he was almost across the tracks, when it hit him. Railroads have won similar judgments before, and the Common Pleas Court decided in favor of the N...
...first of these great men has at least made his peace with the lusty young American Newspaper Guild, the three-year-old union of editorial workers which now boasts chapters in 274 U. S. newspaper and news offices, and a total of 5,877 members. Not so the A. N. P. A., whose individualistic members are still prone and proud to tell each other: "I'm not going to let my reporters tell me how to run my paper!" Heartening to A. N. P. A. men was a strong message last week from their directorate, urging them to treat...