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Died. William Cordes, 55, onetime newsboy, president of the Prophylactic Brush Co. Inc.; of pneumonia; in Northampton, Mass...
From this house will each day issue the myriad copies of Hearst's New York Journal (evening) and American (morning). It is alive with rollers, chutes, conveyors to carry copy, proof, type to contact points in the process of rushing news to newsboy. In the "fudge" room stand three linotype machines next to telegraph instruments where telegraphic flashes tell sudden death, discovery, disaster. From the machines, conveyors carry the type galley directly to the presses. News, newspapers think, should be gobbled hot. The American and Journal have every known device to sell it smoking...
Hearst v. The Senate. Had William Randolph Hearst, bold son of a onetime Senator,* tried to make the U. S. Senate his debtor, his newsboy or his strong-arm man? The special committee under Senator Reed of Pennsylvania (TIME, Dec. 19) continued finding out. First of all it examined Publisher Hearst to learn how, when & where he had obtained pseudo-official Mexican documents indicating that $1,215,000 was to have been paid to four U. S. Senators, with Mexican President Calles' halfbrother, Mexican Consul General Arturo M. Elias of Manhattan, and Lawyer Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan...
...Newsboys prize was won by Charles Goldenberg of Mattapan, a graduate of the Boston Public Latin School. This award of $300 is given to a Freshman who has been a newsboy up to the time of admission to the University and who passed his entrance examinations with the highest average...
Said J. Finley Wilson, Grand Exalted Ruler: "I am a native of Tennessee. Came from the ranks?bellboy, newsboy, bootblack, hotel waiter, head waiter, cowboy, miner, newspaper reporter, editor, publisher, president of the Negro Press Association, and was elected four times by acclamation. ... I put in our splendid education and health programs. I stand on my record. Let others climb on the bandwagon! Organization is my slogan...