Word: wirephoto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irishman, was barely home in San Francisco from the convention last year when he started to load his guns for a return battle in 1935. In June he broadcast a voluminous letter to all AP members inviting them to help him force the AP management to rid itself of Wirephoto. Alternatives: drop it entirely or turn it back to American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to be operated by the latter for all the U. S. Press, with losses guaranteed by the four existing big picture agencies (AP, International, Acme, Wide World). From responses to that letter, Lawyer Neylan plotted his offensive...
Neylan v. Noyes. Shrewdly Mr. Neylan hitched his Wirephoto attack to a demand that the AP directorate of 15 be altered to include small-city publishers who comprise 80% of the membership. Deftly he planted the idea that adoption of Wirephoto by the AP directorate indicated that the small towner was AP's forgotten man. That was enough to jolt the AP into action. Within a week AP President Frank Brett Noyes, venerable publisher of the rich & routine Washington Evening Star, wrote his 1,340 members: "It would be impossible to plan a procedure that would more effectively scuttle...
Resolution No. 1: Let the AP maintain its picture-mat service to small papers at the same standard of efficiency as in the past, and at no greater cost than in pre-Wirephoto days. Boldly Publisher Macy pounced on a sore toe by reviewing the AP's momentous blunders on the Hauptmann verdict, the Gold Clause decision and the Weirton case "while the executives' attention was diverted to Wire-photo." His main point for the resolution: His papers were required to pay 50% more for an expedited mat-service to keep from being scooped by metropolitan dailies invading...
Resolution No. 3: Let the AP be protected against any liability arising out of ) Wirephoto. Big Jack Neylan rose on his long legs, began in an easy, booming drawl...
...going to put this old grey head right into a family quarrel. Up to now here has been an impression that all is sweet and lovely among the immortal 39 [Wirephoto users.] Well, I can tell you that's no happy family. In fact they're having a terrible time keeping ten from running out! George Cameron of the San Francisco Chronicle is threatening to sue on the ground that Wirephoto was sold to him by misrepresentation. The sales talk was that his Hearst competitors were about to buy it. If he should win, and the rest...