Word: pressroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daniel Rhodes Hanna, acquired what was left of the newspaper, which had been absorbed in the Cleveland News. Later he handed the News on to his three sons, Daniel Jr., Carl & Mark. Last week big, blond Dan Hanna Jr., who worked his way up from pressroom apprentice to publisher, did something his grandfather would have approved. He signed an employment contract with the American Newspaper Guild...
Earle Martin went rummaging last week for his old alpaca coat and soiled straw hat. On & off for 25 years they were part of his uniform as a newspaper editor. The coat was comfortable. Tho hat, worn winter & summer (with occasional changes for a battered felt), kept pressroom grime from the editor's bald pate. Now, after four years of blue serge and spotless linen as a Chamber of Commerce executive, he would need his old accoutrements again. He had just been hired as editor of the Cleveland News...
...Newsprint is the feminine element in the pressroom. It is never alike twice. . . . There must be a kindly discipline exerted over it. ... When a sheet of newsprint breaks in the press it raises hell, just like a woman getting hysterical...
...best." Not every pressroom foreman agrees with this proud motto of R. Hoe & Co., Inc., maker of presses since 1803. But the company's long history has been replete with startling achievements. The many presses it has sold make Hoe as synonymous for press as Gillette is for razor, Baldwin for locomotive, Colt for pistol. It was news last week when old R. Hoe & Co. bowed to the inevitable and passed into a receivership. Company officials blamed the decline in newspaper lineage, the fact that publishers are using their old presses to the limit, that "machinery is the last...
...that time the Press was on the job. A "pressroom" was prepared on the mezzanine of the Park Plaza. For the Star, Gang-Reporter Theodore Link, instead of Brundidge, had the bulk of the work. But Rogers of the Post-Dispatch was immediately taken into the confidence of Mrs. Berg and her lawyer. He alone of the newshawks was shown the Berg notes, including this astonishing...