Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia paper to sign a contract with the Newspaper Guild; the rest have followed. Record men have fun, fight the Inquirer tooth & nail for scoops. The night Huey Long was dying both papers waited for the final flash until long after the usual Sunrise edition deadline. Finally the Record staff turned out all the lights in the building. Soon the Inquirer lights, a few doors up the street, went off and the Inquirer's, staff went home. Ten minutes later came word of Huey's death. Back on went the Record lights and out in the streets went...
...Inquirer's, staff likes the big parties he gives and the big bonuses he hands out. His men admire him, too, for insisting that the paper run the story of his income tax troubles (TIME, May 1) on the front page. Advertisers think the Inquirer's, circulation has been inflated by $12 clocks given with ($4) subscriptions, believe it will eventually drop back to about 300,000 daily and 500,000 Sunday. (Present Sunday circulation is 1,000,000, but nearly half of that is "jackrabbit," a predated edition circulated from Maine to California-Peoria, Ill. accounts...
...event of a daylight air raid on Paris, employes of the Louvre department store will stream across the Rue de Rivoli, not into shelter but into the Louvre Museum. Their job: to help the museum staff remove, pack and convey to safety the world's vastest collection of art. Obviously unable to do it unaided are the museum's guards, who number 405 and have 900 rooms to cover...
Last week it looked to Parisians as if the Louvre staff needed a little augmentation in time of peace as well. About ten minutes of four one afternoon the guard who patrols the new French room on the second floor found himself staring at a blank space on the wall. When he had passed by 20 minutes before it had been occupied by Antoine Watteau's L'lndifférent, a tiny (10¼ inches by 7⅞ inches) painting of a carefree youth in a rose colored cape and blue doublet...
From various U. S. Senators the Hazelton, Pa. Flying Club got some queer-sounding telegrams. From Nevada's Key Pittman: "Mildred arrived as storm broke. She is spending the night with me." From Colorado's Edwin Johnson: "The members of the office staff are taking turns sitting on it [a pigeon's egg] in the hope that something might happen." In his office California's Hiram Johnson shouted to his secretary: "Get this chicken out of here. It's raising hell." Explanation: as a publicity stunt arranged by the National Youth Administration each Senator...