Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago, labor-loving readers of the Citizen-News were shocked when labor-loving Publisher Palmer's entire editorial staff went on strike. With a Guild contract about to be signed, Publisher Palmer had decided to retrench by firing three active Guild members: Political Editor Roger Johnson, a past president of the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild, Drama Critic Elizabeth Yeaman and Editorial Writer Mel. G. Scott Jr. To the Guild, this was discriminatory discharge in violation of the Labor Act and cause for a strike. Sorrowfully, Publisher Palmer hired a staff of scabs, insisting that, as a liberal...
...Citizen-News has liberal "views...
...Citizen-News has liberal views...
...everything but money. Last week, Hollywood decided to make its crowning contribution to strike tactics: 500 invitations went out, signed by Miriam Hopkins. Gloria Stuart, Melvyn Douglas. et al., for a cocktail picket party and promenade in front of the Citizen-News...
...David Grayson," he writes). In 1936, 30 years later, his aim is still waving around, but he hasn't fired a shot. He just goes on filling his journal with fatuous, trite, sentimental, philistine, ingenuous, graphic practice notes: about newspaper jobs in Cleveland, San Francisco, Denver, everything from news happenings to a synopsis of his novel (a stupendous family chronicle from Jeremiah I to Jeremiah IV), from election returns to querulous data on his wife's raising the baby on candy, from denunciations of automobiles and airplanes to pompous credos favoring Democracy. Typical of his talent...