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...Yale, is a kindly, tall, wizened man whose chief interests, aside from his paper, are horses and music. He uses endless columns in the Times-Star to promote better music for art-loving Cincinnati. His attitude toward employes is friendly, paternalistic. The Times-Star avoids an American Newspaper Guild contract by the simple device of paying better salaries, granting longer vacations than its rival, the Post...
...Chicago Hearstpaper members of the American Newspaper Guild went on strike because the Guild, a C. I. O. union of newspaper workers, accused the management of innumerable violations of contract. The Guild charged wholesale and wanton firing of Guildsmen whom the management said it let go for economy. So the Guild demanded that these employes be reinstated, and the management refused...
...college. Certainly the magazine has a duty to the college, but the college also has its duty to the magazine, the duty to support it not only by buying it, but, what is more important, by reading it. And while the editors take their part of the contract seriously, turning out a paper that is attractive and readable, the college does not begin to do its part, which consists in providing the Advocate writers with an interested and critical audience. For a college literary magazine does not exist merely to provide a kind of last-day-of-school, prize...
...tell you, it's roughly twenty grand, but when he smooths it out it comes to about 30 bucks. But don't get me wrong; I like working with Jack. Been with him for three years now and I've got two more to go before my contract runs...
...turned out, he explained, he had played here in Boston back in 1927 at the old Keith Theatre, doing a song and dance act with his brother. He was still working at this act when Jack Benny auditioned him for radio work and awarded him his present contract...