Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas?a debonair six-foot shape in blue serge, with crisp yachting cap tilted to starboard?waved his hand. Chatting with pressmen, he stroked his goatee?a preposterous tuft no bigger than a barnacle?responded wittily to their sallies, screwing up his eyes when the sun shone against his face?a very brown face, drawn taut with the whip of sea-salt. "What good is the Cup to America when you have nothing to put in it?" asked he. "I understand the only thing you have left to put in it would burn the bottom...
...about him stored in the morgue. At the Herald-Tribune, he pressed a button which started the presses which covered part of a Sunday edition. Everyone was impressed by the knowledge of printing possessed by the "English lord," so much so that he was made a member of the pressmen's union which authorizes him to seek employment on cylinder and flat-bed presses, entitles him to sick benefits, insures him a good funeral...
...should always look at both sides of the card. Upon examination of the opposition it is found to consist of ill informed people led by certain politicians and pressmen, he stated. Only a little group of Senators oppose it and are bound to smother the question...
...born at the propitious moment of the Manhattan newspaper pressmen's strike. Being a labor paper, of course it was not subject to the strike, and published unimpeded while other papers were restricted in the size of their editions and numbers of papers printed. It could have had no better opportunity to get a " hearing " from the people of Manhattan...
During the New York pressmen's strike, when the metropolitan dailies were published in combined form*, they carried no editorials...