Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lists of Labor reporters begin with Louis Stark of the New York Times, and, until this year, most lists could easily end with him. He made Labor news his career when most papers buried such stories back among the want ads and comic strips, when his current crop of colleagues were school boys or cub reporters. Yet he is not old (49). He began work in New York with the City News Association in 1912, went to the Times in 1917. Since then he has made himself so well informed on Labor that both William Green and John Lewis have...
...Chicago the dispatches of Edwin A. Lahey of the Daily News have stood out for their fairness, though his boss, Colonel Frank Knox, has no love for the C.I.O. Lahey, who previously had been covering the local garbage situation, was at the theatre seeing an Ibsen play on the evening of Jan. 2 when he was told to take the midnight train to Detroit. There was hardly a day from then on that Chicago did not see a Lahey story from the strike front. Once he got home for a few days and promptly went out to cover the Fansteel...
...story, coughing and vomiting. Once he looked up to see a striker coming at him with a club. Girardin stopped the club in mid-air with a "Hello Tony." Most thoughtful Labor expert to emerge in Detroit has been lanky, young, bespectacled Reporter Archie Walter Robinson of the News...
Newest idea for covering Labor is Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson's Economic Battle Page started last week in his tabloid New York News. Like the Presidential Battle Page which he published last fall during the campaign, it was a series of arguments and sassy talk approved before publication by leaders of both camps and run in adjoining columns on the same page. Interviews were made by two News crack reporters, Carl Warren and Fred Pasley. One page last week quoted the wives of a striker and non-striker in a steel mill at Monroe, Mich...
...West 54th Street town house of the late John D. Rockefeller is one of the few remaining private residences in mid-Manhattan with a scrap of lawn. Mr. Rockefeller had not seen it for years, however, and last week came news that it and his son's place next door would soon be torn down. The sites had been given to the Museum of Modern Art for a fine new building to be completed...