Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engineers walked out, over demands for an $8.19 pay raise to bring their average pay to around $40 a week. The papers could have printed, but in Britain, when one union walks out, other union men would not think of breaking the strike. Thus some 23,000 printers, pressmen, etc. had no papers...
...Press Is Notified. A few months ago, when he fell ill of pneumonia, he had his secretary reply to pressmen: "Mister Hughes says you're not to worry. He says that as soon as he's died he'll notify the press...
Next day, in Hershey, Pa., after a private hour with Governor John Fine, Taft faced the Pennsylvania delegates, went through the usual question & answer routine. Later, Taft had lunch with Pennsylvania pols and pressmen, at which the minister of Hershey's All Saints' Episcopal Church invoked God's blessings for the President of the U.S. and "Thy servant Robert." Asked again if he hoped to have won over any delegates, Taft said: "I do not expect converts to come up to the altar and confess today...
Then came the crusher. Last week the grand jury not only refused to indict Ham Reid but, in an astounding bit of legal beagling, it filed slander charges against three P.A.G. members and five American Pressmen, including Ken Dixon and Publisher Shearman. The accusation: they had "defamed" three of the local gamblers as well as Sheriff Reid, the district attorney, other officials...
...Ottawa, Kans. Daily Herald (circ. 6,194) was just starting its afternoon press run when the flood waters from the Kaw River began lapping at its doors. In the basement, pressmen rigged a block & tackle to hoist the electric press motor above the water, finally gave up the race when the flood kept coming. Then the Herald staff waded waist-deep out of the shop to set up an airplane shuttle service between Ottawa and a printing plant in Chanute, 80 miles away. The Herald didn't miss an edition...