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...Atlantic City, N.J. last week, Richard W. Slocum, executive vice president of the Philadelphia Bulletin and president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, stepped up before 1,000 newspaper production men and said sternly: "The day of easy money [for newspapers] is gone . . . Some newspapers have shrunk, and more have died than we like to talk about. More will shrink and die if we do not meet our present-day problems." Publisher Slocum was gloomy about the newspaper business with reason. All over the U.S., rising costs have squeezed profit margins of newspaper publishers to the lowest point in years...
Commented Overseer Thomas W. Slocum '90: "I would rather have one sportsman than a thousand yellow-streaked Carusos...
...night the Chemistry laboratories has its occasional alarms, claims Kenneth E. Slocum, who guards Mallinokrodt. He tells of wavering temperatures in chemical refrigerators which caused all manner of explosions and poisongas leakages. Slocum's equipment, of course, includes gas masks. A major catastrophe happened several years ago. During a temporary discontinuance of service by the Cambridge Water Department, many students turned on the faucets at their laboratory desks and, obtaining no water, left the faucets turned on. When service was eventually restored, there was a large-scale flood, which required police forces and a crew from Widener an entire night...
Mulvihill was an enigma. During his long term as president be had absolute power. Many in the H.U.E.R.A. felt his methods were high-handed and that he lacked sincere interest in the union. Last fall, a group breaded by McNamara and Malinckrodt watchman Kenneth Slocum started to investigate the financial records, which Mulvihill always kept to himself. They made no statements or accusations, merely decided that Mulvihill...
Ordinarily, when a vice-president moves up, he must name one of the board members to fill his old position. But Slocum and McNamara told Mrs. Maynard not to fill the vacancy with anyone so an election could be held if she resigned. McNamara was secretary of the union at the time, and quietly dictated to the president the policy that beat off an attempt to incorporate the H.U.E.R.A. into the A.F.L. Although new himself to organized labor, he had the advice of two old pros. Slocum has been in union work since 1919, and Robert Green, another leader...