Word: wirephotoed
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...bound to be an exception, due to at least three issues too hot to be disposed of entirely in private. One was the NRA newspaper code which expires June 15. Another was the question of letting down the bars against radio news broadcasting. Third and hottest of all was Wirephoto and John Francis Neylan...
...Wirephoto is the Associated Press's system for flashing newspictures around the country by telephone wire. It serves 39 of the AP's 1,340 member newspapers, in 24 large cities. Those 39 underwrite the $1,000,000-a-year cost of getting pictures from any distance in about ten minutes (TIME, May 7; Jan. 14). When the project, secretly negotiated, was revealed at last year's AP meeting, two delegates fumed with rage. One was John Francis Neylan, brainy, brawny counsel for William Randolph Hearst, who holds 19 AP memberships. The other was peppery little...
...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...
...When an airmail letter from him was held up, the President had a copy sent by wirephoto to reach Amelia Earhart at a banquet given in Oakland, Calif., in honor of her Hawaiian flight. The flight, according to the San Francisco News, was a Hawaiian publicity stunt for which Miss Earhart was paid $10,000. Said the President's twice-sent letter: "You have scored again...