Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge of the A.P. strike desk sits Lewis Andrew (''Andy") Brophy, dapper six-footer, day supervisor in the New York office, who made a name for himself by a two-hour beat on the Shenandoah dirigible crash. He got a broken ankle when his car turned over returning from the wreck. A.P. rewarded him with, among other things, a cane capped with inscribed metal from the dirigible...
...quotes from John L. Lewis, William Green, and Government sources. Notable in the year's early reporting of Labor were the dispatches of Paul Gallico, former sports editor, who returned to the New York News in January to cover the human side of the General Motors sit-down strike at Flint...
...time the steel strike flared last month in six States from Pennsylvania to Illinois, the press was ready for it. Associated Press and United Press set up strike desks in Cleveland, each in charge of an editor who gives assignments to his staff on the six-State front, turns their reports over to rewrite men for coordination into major stories going over trunk wires to the nation's newspapers. A.P. estimates 15,000 words out of Cleveland daily...
United Press moved Julius Frandsen from New York to head the strike desk and Joe E. Morris from Washington to help him. Young Cyrus Sulzberger, nephew of the New York Times's publisher, is one of the U. P. Labor specialists remaining in Washington. All U. P. men have been ordered to write strictly down the middle of the road, to balance each line favorable to one side with one for the opposition...
...been covering the local garbage situation, was at the theatre seeing an Ibsen play on the evening of Jan. 2 when he was told to take the midnight train to Detroit. There was hardly a day from then on that Chicago did not see a Lahey story from the strike front. Once he got home for a few days and promptly went out to cover the Fansteel plant battle so closely that he inhaled a load...