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During the winter it takes some time to get mail from the States. From Fairbanks, the northern terminal of the railroad, the mail is carried by auto (weather permitting) to Chatanika, about 30 mi.; from there to Circle, about 130 mi., it is carried by horses, a five-day trip; from Circle to Coal Creek, almost 55 mi., the mail is carried by dog team up the Yukon River, in 2¼ days. The dog team has been on time every week this winter, even in snow storms or 50°-below-zero weather. Due to the difficulty in getting...
...Mellon's five-day appearance on the stand last week was devoted to discussion of the Government's other charge: that he established large losses by fraudulent security sales, chiefly to his own family holding companies (TIME, March 4 & 11). On the first day the old Pittsburgh financier was his usual painfully shy self. But on the second day he perked up, grew garrulous, cracked mild jokes. Coached by his famed chief counsel, smart little Frank J. Hogan of Washington, he seemed actually to enjoy reminiscing publicly over his rise to power, sketching a portrait of himself...
...blinds land and sea, to stand and wait until it clears. Last fortnight a great white pall closed in on the Atlantic seaboard, spread over the U. S. as far west as Iowa and Nebraska. When it lifted last week it had lasted four days, the worst since the five-day...
...Cleveland contract with the Guild is the second of its kind in the land.* It provides a 40-hour five-day week, a minimum wage of $40 a week for newsmen and photographers with four years experience, a 10% pay rise for employes now receiving between $40 and $50 a week, three months pay for dismissed employes who have worked for the News nine years or more. Having secured so much, the Guild did not insist upon its supreme point-a closed shop...
Since its first national convention in St. Paul last summer the American Newspaper Guild has made friends here, enemies there. It got the Associated Press to adopt a five-day week, failed to win general pay rises from the Cleveland News. It won concessions on hours, wages and job-security from Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram, failed to get a written contract. It won a pipsqueak boycott against the Jamaica Long Island Press, suffered sharp internal pains because some Guild elements objected to the "labor union tendencies" of President Heywood Broun...