Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defied the Journal-Bulletin owners as "money barons and sweatshop operators." And, as if this disturbance in the Journal's back yard were not enough, Mr. O'Hara suddenly popped up right in the Journals front yard. It was announced that he had acquired the feeble Providence News-Tribune (evening) which had been nursed along by Democratic Senator Peter G. Gerry as a political sounding-board to 25,000 pairs of readers' ears. Out went dignified, high-collared Editor Joaquim B. Calvo. Up went Ralph E. Bailey from his job as head of the News-Tribune State...
Though they would scorn to admit that Mr. O'Hara & associates had them frightened, the Journal and Bulletin by last week had done plenty to fend off the News-Tribune and the Star in a circulation war. Outstanding preparations included amplifying personnel, buying another page of comics for the Bulletin and Hearst International News Service and Universal Service to supplement the A. P.. United Press, and North American Newspaper Alliance Services on both sheets...
...news began to break when an $8,500 Observer check for advertising promotion "bounced" from Manhattan's Chemical Bank & Trust Co. Since Mr. Heath had functioned as treasurer of Observer Co., up to this point not a soul had suspected that the paper's books would not bear auditing. Headed by Managing Director Eugene MacLean, onetime Washington Post general manager, the Observer editors promptly asked a court for an assignee to preserve the weekly's remaining assets. Next thing the staff knew, New York State Assistant Attorney General Bernard Abramson was in the office on "an anonymous...
...Laugh, Variety, The Golem (see p. 48). Most famed Russian director has been Sergei Eisenstein (Ten Days That Shook the World, Potemkin), who four years ago spent two years producing Thunder Over Mexico. Last week, UFA and Director Eisenstein, neither of whom has been much in the U. S. news lately, reappeared in it, both to their disadvantage...
...retirement checked the cracking prices of Government bonds, which despite more determined Treasury support dropped to new lows for the year. In the last three weeks the market value of all Government securities had shrunk more than $1,274,000,000. Already jittery from a continual rattle of strike news, the stockmarket continued to follow suit, steady selling erasing more than one-half the ground gained since the turn of the year...