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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...
...Supreme Court Plan. Last week the Committee rounded out its fourth week of hearings, listening to an assortment of the Plan's opponents, including Henry M. Bates, dean of the University of Michigan (who some 30 years ago taught law to both Henry Ashurst and Burton Wheeler), Columnist Dorothy Thompson, Professor Edwin Borchard of Yale Law School, John T. Flynn, financial writer, Lawyer William B. McDowell of Royal Oak, Mich., Erwin N. Griswold, professor of law at Harvard...
...critic, Columnist David Lawrence, pointed a monitory finger at Section 5299 of the U. S. revised statutes. That law says that whenever "domestic violence, unlawful combinations, or conspiracies in any State" so obstruct the execution of its laws as to ''deprive any portion or class of the people'' of their rights it shall be lawful for the President "and it shall be his duty" to use Federal force to restore order. Another newer critic, Columnist Walter Lippmann, wanted to know whether the President would be any better equipped to deal with strikes...
Thursday evening Messrs. Chrysler & Lewis met again to try for a treaty. Columnist Hugh Johnson wrote that the evacuation agreement had been made nearly three weeks earlier by Messrs. Chrysler & Lewis, that it fell through because Mr. Lewis could not reach his lieutenants in Detroit within the time agreed on and because "lawyers and other industrialists" put pressure on Mr. Chrysler to make Governor Murphy oust the sit-downers. Of the post-evacuation negotiations, Hugh Johnson said...
...Griswold will testify as an opponent to the President's proposal for reorganization of the judiciary. He is one of a number of prominent opponents to the court change who will appear as witnesses against it. Among others who are to speak before the Committee are Dorothy Thompson, noted columnist, and Henry M. Bates, dean of the Law School of the University of Michigan...