Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although lacking the militant leadership afforded them Sunday night by officers of the Cambridge Central Labor Board, the workers were in a belligerent mood, requiring all of Stefani's persuasive powers to obtain the final vote authorizing him to continue negotiations for 36 hours
These papers are worries: the N. Y. Journal-American, Boston American,^ Baltimore News-Post (Sunday American), Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph...
These papers are headaches: Milwaukee News-Sentinel, Atlanta Georgian (Sunday American), Chicago American (which lost $500,000 last year) and Herald & Examiner. Badgered by the Guild strike (which, however, appeared near settlement last week), the Herex has lost $500,000 in advertising since December. For years the Herex has been able to pay interest on its bonds only because it collects $750,000 a year rent from the American. But its Sunday edition sells 1,000,000 American Weeklies. Joe Connolly is working desperately to save Chicago for Hearst, and his success or failure may determine whether Hearst remains...
Judge Shearn may have to sell something else. He would undoubtedly like to sell a few more papers (though he denies it). But with total daily circulation of the Hearstpapers down from 5,153,676 in 1936 to 4,368,086 last year (Sunday circulation was up slightly to 6,714,430), the retrenchment of Hearst is almost over and Trustee Shearn's main task for a good many years will be to pay bills, reduce bonded indebtedness and get Hearst's real estate out of hock. Whether he can do that depends on readers, advertisers and creditors...
Nothing was more insufferable to Vag than the Sunday train ride back to Boston. He squinted through the frosted window, sighed dismally, and then the impossible happened. A pretty girl, a college girl, undoubtedly from Wellesley, took the vacant seat next to him. It happened just as Vag had always seen in the movies. He knew exactly what to do, for the scene had been rehearsed in his mind a thousand times before. Her baggage must be torn from her small hands and lifted to the rack above. Helplessly, Vag watched the red-cap go through the motions. Still, there...