Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Names make news." Last week these lames made this news...
Three members of the Harvard Board of Overseers will administer the fellowships: John Stewart Bryan, scholarly publisher of the Richmond News Leader, president of the College of William and Mary and former president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, chairman; Editor Ellery Sedgwick of Atlantic Monthly; New York Herald Tribune's Walter Lippmann. They and a handful of Harvard professors will select from each of the nation's six great regions at least one man. Only prerequisites: three years' experience, a Godspeed from the boss, a thirst for knowledge. When they go back to their jobs they...
...daily newspapers in Portland, Seattle's sister city in the industrially restless Northwest, struck for a $9 seven-hour day, refused to arbitrate further. Instead of the classic newspaper tactics of trying to fight it out, publish a paper somehow, Portland's Oregonian, Oregon Journal and News-Telegram just closed down. While Portlanders spun their radio dials for news, police posted in the newspapers' plants twiddled their thumbs. There was no violence. The American Newspaper Guild is notably weak in Portland, so instead of supporting the striking printers, editorial men on the Oregonian petitioned them to "cease...
...help untangle this mess, Harry Walker Ely, who had just stepped in as general manager of the six Northwest units of the Scripps League of Newspapers, including the Portland News-Telegram had to abruptly turn his attention from what he had thought was .going to be his big job, the Seattle Star, embattled by a six-month Guild strike...
Last week Antares dropped to second place as news came out of University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis. of a stellar monster four billion miles through the middle. If its centre were placed at the hub of the solar system it would engulf all the planets up to the last and most remote pair, Neptune and Pluto...