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Next day she held an hour-long interview with 250 pressmen jammed into the chandeliered River Room of London's Savoy Hotel. Reported Daily Telegraph Newshen Winifred Carr, dolefully: "I've had my eyes well and truly opened about men, after watching a roomful of the most critical, cynical and sophisticated males in town, hard-bitten journalists, act like adolescents. Even those who had come to sneer were hanging on her words like impressionable schoolboys and laughing at her wit before she had completed a sentence." Glowed the Daily Mirror: "Marilyn Monroe, the sleek, the pink...
...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...
...Britain's responsible labor unions that forced an end to the strike. Twelve unions, representing out-of-work printers, pressmen, etc., asked the top-level Trades Union Congress to put a stop to the Communists, then laid down their own ultimatum: if the strikers refused to ease their demands, the printers would go back to work anyway, handle electrical and maintenance jobs themselves. At that, the strike leaders capitulated, were handed a $1.40 raise by the publishers, just about what they had been offered in the first place...
...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...