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...message twice around the world through 22 of its bureaus and those of the allied Reuters news agency in 2 hr. 5 min. That was cheering news to A. P. men whose meeting this year lasted but a day and whose openly discussed problems were few. routine. Ot greater public interest, however, was a thoroughgoing criticism of their organization just completed in two installments by aggressive Oswald Garrison Villard. onetime (1897-1918) president of the New York Evening Post, in his Nation (pinko weekly). Under the title "The Associated Press," Editor Villard, once on the A. P. board of directors...
...Since the newspapers of the great industrial towns of Pennsylvania are usually controlled . . by the large capitalists, it is obvious that in 99 cases out of 100 their reports will represent the view of the employing class. ... To illustrate: In the steel strike of 1919 the Press ot Pittsburgh sided entirely with the employers. . . . Actually in only one issue out of 400 did an article appear which described the scandalous violations of American liberties and of the federal Constitution by local authorities. ... I desire here, however, to stress that there are real and legitimate difficulties...
Philadelphia Athletics (American League). World's champions last year, they still look on top. Mickey Cochrane is, without argument, the best catcher in either league. They have a prime staff ot pitchers, each a specialist at beating certain teams, notably Grove for New York, Waiberg for Washington. Earnshaw, star righthander, starts against anybody. Great hitters, they are not incomparable in the field but they get along...
Honored. Owen D. Young, with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Belgium; John Pierpont Morgan, with the Belgian Grand Cross of the Order ot Leopold...
Died. Charles Scribner, 75, board chairman of Charles Scribner's Sons, Manhattan, publishers and booksellers, founder ot Scribner's Magazine; of heart disease; in Manhattan. His most famed publishing contract: $1 per word to Theodore Roosevelt for serial rights to African Game Trails...