Word: paged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time the luckless Governor found himself embroiled in a front-page argument with Madam Secretary Frances Perkins. He claimed that the Secretary of Labor had urged him to "kidnap" the recalcitrant steelmasters, sit them down with John Lewis, "keep them there until they signed an agreement...
Just before Governor Earle withdrew martial law, a Johnstown "Citizens' Committee" & a "Steel Workers Committee" inserted in some 40 newspapers a full-page advertisement captioned WE PROTEST. Relating that the closing of the Bethlehem plant was costing the community $500,000 in weekly payrolls, the advertisement thundered: "It is no part of the functions of American Government to force-or to permit anyone else to force-the individual worker into surrendering his Constitutional rights. . . . If this can happen in Johnstown it can happen anywhere else...
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...
Sociologically-minded Capt. Patterson was ready to syndicate his Economic Battle Page, announced in an editorial that "we're now open for orders...
...screen or on the printed page, the trench scenes from Erich Maria Remarque's book brutally picture the universal bewilderment at the War's end. Author Remarque describes his soldiers' return to their humdrum homes as a tragic surprise they cannot comprehend. Director James Whale, who adds in the film the signing of the Armistice in Marshal Foch's railway car, visions their homecoming as both tragic and comic...