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Easy Prey. Forthwith Dingell introduced a bill making a Korean beer issue mandatory. Then the Blatz Brewing Co. of Milwaukee sent the Secretary of the Army a telegram offering 600,000 cans of beer absolutely free of charge. Not to be outdone, the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. offered several vatfuls of free beer, too. At that, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the W.C.T.U., rose in Denver before the 76th convention of her sisterhood to launch a heated counterattack...
Finally, however, its casualty report was sent on to the Pentagon. The news story, not the Army postal stamp, had been wrong. Last week the Army dutifully sent the Carters a telegram officially informing them of their son's death...
...nearest thing to it: Franklin Roosevelt's telegram to Alben Barkley, then Senate Majority Leader, after Roosevelt had called a tax bill "relief not for the needy but for the greedy." Barkley had resigned in a fury, reconsidered only after the President's apology...
...first issue after its ten-week strike, the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram & Sun last week publicly and graciously buried the hatchet with the Newspaper Guild. The strike might have been avoided, said the Telly, "had better judgment been exercised on both sides." Now that it was over ". . . the staff is pleased . . . the management is pleased . . . [and] we believe you will be pleased...
Gone for Good? The strike had been costly for both sides. The 400 striking Guildsmen together with the 1,000 A.F.L. printers, stereotypers and pressmen who had refused to cross Guild picket lines had already lost upwards of $1,000,000 in wages. The World-Telegram and Sim had lost a huge amount in advertising and circulation revenue. But the full cost of the strike to management was still an unknown quantity. While the W.T. & S. was off the newsstands, New York's two other evening papers had both increased their daily circulation. It was estimated that the Post...