Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Names make news," Last week these names made this news...
...Viscount Nuffield, 60, Great Britain's No. 1 motor tycoon and Oxford University's No. 1 donor, was working overtime, when police arrested a man who they charged had come to his office to kidnap him. When Nuffield heard what happened, he ran to tell someone the news, burst in on some employes practicing for a band concert, cried: "Well, boys, what do you think of it? Two men have just tried to kidnap...
...first time in 44 days, Duluth, a city of 101,463, last week had a daily newspaper. On April 3, 93 members of the American Newspaper Guild walked out of the Ridder Bros, papers, News-Tribune and Herald, after their 24-hour demand for a Guild shop had been turned down. Five days later, the papers suspended publication...
Terms: no Guild shop in editorial and news departments; qualified Guild shop in commercial departments provided the National Labor Relations Board finds the Guild entitled to represent the employes involved; extension of the five-day, 40-hour week; fixing of wages through arbitration...
Southern California journalism is dominated by two aged titans, William Randolph Hearst (Los Angeles Examiner and Herald and Express) and Harry Chandler (Los Angeles Times'). A lonely liberal voice in the midst of this die-hard desert is the little Hollywood Citizen-News, published by a pious progressive from Minnesota, Judge Harlan Guyant Palmer. Publisher Palmer likes the New Deal, dislikes the utilities...