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...Palmer's entire editorial staff went on strike. With a Guild contract about to be signed, Publisher Palmer had decided to retrench by firing three active Guild members: Political Editor Roger Johnson, a past president of the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild, Drama Critic Elizabeth Yeaman and Editorial Writer Mel. G. Scott Jr. To the Guild, this was discriminatory discharge in violation of the Labor Act and cause for a strike. Sorrowfully, Publisher Palmer hired a staff of scabs, insisting that, as a liberal, he must fight for "the right to regulate the size of his editorial force...
...holding down the goalle position for the second year. On the vacation trip he played sensationally, but he has not been very effective since. His clever stickwork has been a great help both defensively and offensively. Jerry Cook, another goalle, is also being used some on the attack. Mel Gordon is the third net-minder...
Riddled by injuries, the Freshman nine will journey to Riverside field this afternoon to met the Boston University Freshman. Coach Samborski will call on Jack Schwede, who set down Tome School 15-5 on the Spring trip, to pitch. Mel Gordon will replace the injured Hartstone and Dago Avergun will probably start in place of Lovett, also on the sick list. The game is called for 3:30 o'clock...
...Mel Porter of Manhattan's Millrose Athletic Club: the national Amateur Athletic Union marathon, from Mount Vernon to the White House, winning by a half-mile over Pat Dengis of Baltimore and Canadian James Bartlett. C. Jessie Anderson, 22, dogged daughter of a Perth golf professional: the British Women's Golf Championship, succeeding Pamela Barton; by crushing Doris Parks of Edinburgh, 6 & 4; at Turnberry, Scotland...
...paid. Furthermore, the estate was hope lessly insolvent. Widow Esther C. B. Busby filed objections to the accounting, sought removal of the bank as executor and payment to her of surcharges equal to losses sustained during the bank's stewardship. She lost her suit after hearing her friend "Mel" Traylor admit he had made a bad guess by not liquidating the estate to get it out of a dangerous speculative position in a falling market (TIME, Nov. 20, 1933). Widow Busby went to the Cook County Circuit Court, but lost again. Still unimpressed, she appealed to the State Appellate...