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...Lewis and his C. I. O. Said he: "So far as recognition of the Union is concerned, the situation is practically the same as it was before the strike was called. As regards the closed shop principle, the defeat is complete." "Then you consider it a defeat?" asked a newshawk...
...When a newshawk reminded him that Mr. Sloan had offered to go to Washing ton if the President himself requested it, Franklin Roosevelt snapped: "A representative of the President did ask him to come down...
Awed by such candid fury, a newshawk inquired : "Does the President know you're giving General Motors hell like this...
Died. Sir Percival Phillips, 59, last active newshawk of Britain's official frontline War correspondents, nephew of the onetime U. S. Senator Philander Chase Knox; of nephritis and heart disease; in London. Born & raised in Pennsylvania, when he had saved $76 he quit the Pittsburgh Times to see the Graeco-Turkish War of 1897. Next year, appearing with his bullet-proof typewriter-case just before trouble broke out, he covered the Spanish-American War. Thence he went to the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, was in Brussels in 1914 when the German invasion began...
...Speaker's dinner he leaned toward Maine's Senator Frederick Hale, solemnly declared that the chief of protocol had had great difficulty in seating the evening's guests because of the presence of the "Ambassador from Maine." At his press conference next day a jesting newshawk asked if the Navy's two new battleships would be named "Maine" and "Vermont." The grinning President replied that the law requires battleships to be named for states "in the Union...