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...Neylan v. Noyes. Shrewdly Mr. Neylan hitched his Wirephoto attack to a demand that the AP directorate of 15 be altered to include small-city publishers who comprise 80% of the membership. Deftly he planted the idea that adoption of Wirephoto by the AP directorate indicated that the small towner was AP's forgotten man. That was enough to jolt the AP into action. Within a week AP President Frank Brett Noyes, venerable publisher of the rich & routine Washington Evening Star, wrote his 1,340 members: "It would be impossible to plan a procedure that would more effectively scuttle...
Resolution No. 3: Let the AP be protected against any liability arising out of ) Wirephoto. Big Jack Neylan rose on his long legs, began in an easy, booming drawl...
Vote: Not-so-pronounced "No." Lawyer Neylan demanded a roll-call. It was denied. Down he sat, his proxies useless in his pocket...
Resolution No. 4: Let a committee of five, including at least three nonusers of Wirephoto, review the whole transaction and determine if the AP's credit and the interests of all members have been protected. Neylan: "I demand a record vote." Carl L. Estes of the Longview, Tex.) News, bitingly: ". . . I've had enough of this self-appointed, self-anointed shepherd of the little fellow. " Vote: Tabled...
...include three directors, one each from cities up to 15,000, 50,000, 75,000 population. Publisher Robert McLean of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin: "Better discussed by a quiet, thoughtful group of men. Let it be put up to the board of directors." Vote: Referred to the directors. Lawyer Neylan: "Will the directors handle the voting as was done today?" Noyes, snappishly: "Maybe. Can't tell." Neylan: "Twice this afternoon you have disfranchised 900 members of the Associated Press by not permitting their proxies to be voted." Neylan, later: "We always lose the first two or three rounds...