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During the big Depression of the 1930s, Cleveland Press reporters took one 15% pay slash, then two more of 10% each. The National Recovery Administration limited the work week to 40 hours, but newsmen were left out. Instead, reporters got a 16-point "firing code" that let its authors, the American Newspaper Publishers Association, fire a man for swearing or wasting copy paper. A survey by the infant American Newspaper Guild revealed that a reporter with 20 years' experience was paid an average $38 a week, about half what the unionized printers got, and Alex Crosby, news editor...
...first time: in August 1957, to fight against a threatened congressional slash in foreign...
...years-or by something-the aging lion has lost much tooth and growl. The gossip content is redolent with secret mergers, splituations and apartaches, sexcess stories about hat-chicks and rot-and-roll singers, nawdy titles (what a fourcabulary! ), pufflicity seekers. Subdued is the shrill attack and jugular slash. There are more handsome compliments ("Hedda Hopper's attractive hairdo and apparel" ), more sentimental excursions into history ("[George Washington] was the father of our country. Even more-he was a brother to every American"), and more nostalgic poetry ("How long ago and far away you seem . . . As fragile...
...skiing team was also reduced to club status in last year's budget slash. Captain James H. Breasted, III '60 claimed his team did not need much, only $500 to $1000. 'It's illogical to take away so little from a budget of $700,000," he added...
...Kooning's "own image" will still leave a lot of viewers floundering in the broad, thick brush strokes and paint splatters. There is no trace of his earlier furiously hacked and lacerated images of women. In his present works De Kooning, without relenting in either slash or splash, has clearly moved toward landscape. The raw tones that De Kooning himself called "circus colors" are now fresher and brighter; images swim closer and more sturdily to the surface...