Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader McGill is correct. TIME erred in following the reports of the Associated Press and United Press which gave a mistaken impression. The case concerned a gift voted by stockholders of one corporation to employes of an other corporation, part of whose assets the first corporation had acquired but whose stock had been sold to a third party. Since the employes in question did not work for the stockholders who voted them money, the Court held that the money could not be considered a payment for services...
...Lewis had met face to face since an unpublicized meeting in a Washington hotel seven months ago. They mumbled greetings to each other but did not shake hands. Later when a reporter asked Mr. Green if it had been "Bill" and "John" again, Mr. Green, whose manner with the Press is not one of his strong points, flushed, gulped and trailed off with a weak "Well...
...Willard was serving them free lunch and liquor. They ate in shifts, later took turns in a poker game, for any opening of the locked door might mean the biggest labor story since the strike in "Little Steel." Some papers kept private lines open to the Willard, and all press services kept a running story on their wires...
Among the hundreds of representatives of the U. S. Press who flocked into Weirton, W. Va. after the National Labor Relations Board began its crucial hearings on the union policies of Weirton Steel Co. last August, was 34-year-old Editor Hartley W. Barclay of the tradesheet Mill & Factory. Even Editor Barclay's 23,000 readers, mostly plant owners and managers, were surprised by the violence with which he reacted in his October issue. "What comedy! What tragedy!" exploded Hartley W. Barclay in an article captioned The True Story of Weirton and illustrated with smiling Weirton workers. Claiming that...
After a brief consultation with Conover-Mast's high-powered lawyer, Elisha Hanson, who as counsel for the American Newspaper Publishers' Association is the most vociferous warrior for the Free Press against the New Deal, Editor Barclay announced that he would ignore the subpoena...