Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city-wide Guild contract, publishers abruptly ended prolonged negotiations for a new contract. Having gained important wage & hour concessions, the Guild voted 243-to-22 to accept a new agreement shorn of "Guild shop" and "preferential hiring of Guildsmen" clauses. Meanwhile, in Duluth, the Ridder Bros, papers (Herald and News-Tribune) completed their first week of suspension, with printers refusing to go through a Guild picket line. The Guildsmen. 93 in all, struck when the publishers turned down a 24-hour demand to accept a Guild-shop clause...
...imperfections of Japanese military strategy have made more news lately than the perfections of Japanese art (see p. 14). But one day fortnight ago a demonstration of brush drawing by a 53-year-old Japanese artist drew the unprecedented number of 1.900 visitors to the old Crocker Art Gallery in Sacramento. Calif., and his atmospheric, formalized landscapes, on view last week, made critics remember him as one of the most accomplished artists in the West...
This was bad news not only to helium-hungry Germany but to brave, energetic, 45-year-old Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl, Swedish-descended, Chicago-born airship enthusiast and chief of Lakehurst, N. J. Naval Air Station. Last week...
...Colonel Leonard Porter Ayres, whose frequent sound-offs in news letters from Cleveland Trust Co. are the favorite economic reading of most U. S. tycoons, this was all so much balderdash. Remarking on the railroad crisis, stagnation of new building, lack of substantial upturn in automobile production, fall in security prices, increase in unemployment and lack of a spring upturn. Colonel Ayres decided that the present lull is only the end of the first stage of a major depression. Gloomed he: "The physical volume of industrial production appears to have dropped to more than 40% below the computed normal level...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...