Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Heywood Broun, the New York World-Telegram's crusading columnist, called the first meeting to form a Newspaper Guild in December 1933, Morris Watson was one of the handful that showed up. From the outset he was a zealous Guild organizer and officer, outspoken not only against his employers but leading a campaign against the Brooklyn Eagle, an AP member. He headed deputations to Washington, signed demands by the Guild to his AP superiors. He was told his Guild activities were lessening his value at the AP and finally, Oct. 18, 1935 he was fired "because...
Last week Amster Spiro, 43, since 1927 city editor of Hearst's largest newspaper, the New York Journal which claims the largest evening newspaper circulation in the U. S. (650,000), launched "Flash News," just such a game with just such features. Two to six persons may play. Each is given a cardboard newspaper front page dummy. Players roll dice in rotation, take from compartments numbered two to twelve, according to the total of their dice, an item, headline, picture or special instruction card. Object of the game is to complete the make-up of the newspaper front page...
...Twin David Whitmire Hearst is currently reporting for the Baltimore News-Post; Brother John Randolph, 27, is president of the New York Journal; Brother William Randolph Jr., 29, is publisher of the New York American; Brother George, 33, is president of the San Francisco Examiner...
...Sister Hetty." This will Mrs. Wilks filed for probate in the Surrogate Court of Essex County, N. Y. in which Lake Placid is located. Represented by the potent Manhattan law "firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb, Sister Hetty said that her brother had not been a resident of New York, but owned property there...
With the filing of these objections it became more & more necessary to determine Colonel Green's domicile. It might be Texas, Massachusetts, New York or Florida. If it is Texas, Surrogate Owen has already ruled, Widow Green will be judged an interested party in the proceedings...