Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sovietese, Vice President of the Union Council of People's Commissars...
...last week, a small baldish man named Paul Block announced he had bought the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Standard Union. The price was $1,000,000 or thereabouts. For the Standard Union it was a tidy sum, because for all its 65 years of distinguished history, the paper was losing money at the rate of about $25,000 dollars a month...
When the deal had been made public, when the Standard Union had carried polite letters of congratulation from the country's celebrities, Publisher Block gave a theatre party. He bought out the house for a performance of George White's "Scandals," and asked his friends to help celebrate. Among the guests were Polar Pilgrim Byrd, Aviatrix Earhart, Mauler Dempsey. Both the purchase and the party were typical of Publisher Block...
...Last year, he negotiated a shrewd deal in Pittsburgh, where he bought both the morning Post and the evening Sun, then traded the Sun to Publisher William Randolph Hearst for the morning Gazette-Times, then consolidated the two morning papers into the enormously profitable Post-Gazette. With the Standard-Union, Publisher Block owns five daily newspapers...
...Brooklyn is another matter. It is near home, available for his experiments. His plans for the Standard Union are expansive and expensive. He has made a bet with himself that he can make the paper break even by January...