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Across the Mississippi the Governor of Illinois, Henry Horner, a lawyer, was of a different mind. To Mayor Dickmann he dispatched an urgent telegram: "Before you take final action on the ordinance before you, may I ask you fully consider the unnecessarily drastic effect which its enforcement will have on the coal industry in 15 southern Illinois counties, adjacent to St. Louis, employing 29,000 wage earners, and sending 4,000,000 tons of coal annually to your city, which is the natural market place for these counties...
Last summer Roy Wilson Howard, up-from-the-bottom publisher of the New York World-Telegram and chairman of the 25 Scripps-Howard chain papers,* declared that the American Newspaper Guild, rising new newshawks' union, was a menace and he would neither recognize nor treat with it. Last month, Mr. Howard's representatives announced that "in the spirit of the Wagner law" they would talk with a Guild committee representing editorial workers on the New York World-Telegram. Last week, after hours and days of wrangling, the New York Guild Committee wrung from the management a statement that...
...dailies, the Guild is now organized in 201. But these 201 represent top-flight newspapers and in them the Guild now has 5,300 first-rate newshawks carrying its card. A major Guild milestone was last week's announcement from the World-Telegram. It meant that, having lined up Joseph Medill Patterson (New York Daily News) and William Randolph Hearst (TIME, Dec. 14 et ante), the Guild was now doing business with the three most important publishers in the land...
...later in the West were routed to relief agencies in the flood area. Over SCC's second objective-getting retail prices down so that greater egg consumption would reduce the surplus-pre-sided the angel of publicity. Spotting government concern over eggs, the vigilant New York World-Telegram announced with three-column headlines that chain grocers whose eggs cost them 34? a dozen were selling them for 45?, making three times as much profit as they made in 1935. "There is no known method," said the World-Telegram blandly, "of forcing the chains to reduce their retail price...
...local chapter of the Red Cross received a telegram last Saturday assigning a quota of $4000 to this community; and on Monday, as it appeared that the flood would be the most disastrous in all our history, it has been asked that the fund quota be doubled--and to go as far beyond that as possible. In order to be able to secure this large sum, the cooperation of the members of the University is necessary...