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Most people in St. Louis had no afternoon papers one day last week because the men who print them didn't like one of the news stories. George L. Berry, president of the A.F.L. pressmen's union, had sent a telegram to his St. Louis local, ordering it to drop its plan for a slowdown strike. When the pressmen discovered a story about Boss Berry's decision in the afternoon Post-Dispatch and Star-Times they pulled the pressroom switches and walked out, right in the middle of the press run. After a five-hour walkout, union...
From the New York World-Telegram...
...argument raged, delegations of U.S. Communists sat in the galleries, hissed speakers who advocated passage and thus annoyed many a wavering member into complete support of the bill. New Jersey's hulking Charles A. Eaton, aged chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, pulled out a telegram from United Nations Representative Warren R. Austin. Aid to Greece and Turkey, Austin wired, was justified, would strengthen the United Nations, should be approved...
...Scientists Against Time (history). The best biography, decided the judges, was The Autobiography of William Allen White (TIME, March 18, 1946), whose author died in 1944, at 75. One significant sign of the times: the prize for distinguished work as a reporter went to the New York World-Telegram's single-minded Frederick Woltman, who keeps a close and watchful eye on left-wing activities; he won the citation for his periodic pieces on "the infiltration of Communism in the United States...
...debris of last fortnight's tornado (TiME, April 21). While union officials ordered workers to ignore the emergency and stay on strike, 30 union operators rushed back to their jobs. Last week they made the strike's end official, sent in their resignations with a blistering telegram: "Girls refuse to stop. Will work as long as needed. . . . Would be ashamed of a union which would put up pickets in a disaster like this...