Word: schiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Post, Publisher Dorothy Schiff insists that, despite contrary reports from dealers, "things are just about the same as before the strike," when circulation was 327,679. But the Post, which hustled back into print 24 days before its competitors, had for a little while been luxuriating in a press run of some 750,000 copies...
...think this strike has gone on long enough," said New York Post Publisher Dorothy ("Dolly") Schiff in what was surely the understatement of the week. "The city should have at least one newspaper." With that, Dolly Schiff broke the united front of New York publishers against Bert Powers' local of the International Typographical Union. She resigned from the New York Publishers Association and announced that the Post would reappear on the newsstands this week...
...Though the Post's pre-strike circulation was only 327,629, it was expected to run off at least 500,000 papers a day in an effort to pick up readers from the idle Journal-American (circ. 601,625) and World-Telegram (442,936). Powers insisted that Mrs. Schiff would have settled "a long time ago" but for fear of "retribution from advertisers." What suddenly made Dolly change her mind...
...Schiff's statement gave no reason for the resumption of publication, but officials of other New York papers said last night that the Post's financial difficulties were largely responsible...
...Schiff's decision to reopen came after Mayor Robert Wagner canceled his plans to offer a solution to the strike and called another negotiating session for Friday. He said that both sides had asked for renewed negotiations and said the talks offered "some glimmer of hope...