Word: telegrapher
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...city when all daily newspapers stop publishing? Last week Pittsburgh was finding out. When the Mailers' Union went on strike a fortnight ago-and the Drivers' Union refused to load papers - Pittsburgh's Scripps-Howard's Press, Hearst's Sun-Telegraph, William Block's Post-Gazette were forced to close...
...Harold Dietrich, 50-year-old assistant news editor of the Sun-Telegraph, decided he would rather put out a newspaper. With the sponsorship of Pittsburgh's C.I.O. Newspaper Guild and craft unions, he turned a three-room downtown office into a newsroom and recruited some 20 furloughed newsmen to cover their old beats. This week, on the 14th day of the strike, Dietrich's crew ended Pittsburgh's news famine by turning out an eight-page, regular-sized daily, the Pittsburgh Daily Reporter, printed at the plant of labor-paper-publishing Western Newspaper Union. The Reporter...
...envoy of another sort. Quiet, retiring, 65-year-old Walter Sherman Gifford, a Yankee Republican, began his career as a $10-a-week clerk in Western Electric, by a knack for figures and a passion for efficiency, rose to the eminence of chairman of the board of American Telephone & Telegraph, from which he retired last December. His appointment underlined two facts: in some quarters, diplomacy is less politics than big business; Mr. Truman once again had rejected a political appointment for one that would add prestige to his Administration. Baltimore Banker James Bruce, ex-Ambassador to Argentina...
...certainties in Wall Street's uncertain world is that American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the "widows' & orphans' stock," will always pay its $9 yearly dividend. A.T.&T., which has not missed a dividend in 50 years, has been paying $9 since 1922 when the rate was upped from $8.50. But last week Wall Street's faith in "Telephone" trembled for a moment. When A.T.&T.'s President Leroy A. Wilson asked his stockholders to okay a 10,000,000-share increase in stock (to 45,000,000 shares), traders began to wonder if Telephone could...
...year old retired president and chairman of the board of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company will bring to the London post a broad background in economic and financial affairs. The new appointment is also expected to give a strong boost to the Administration's efforts to keep foreign policy bi-partisan, since Gifford is a Republican...