Word: pressman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McGrady, slim, dapper and energetic, Jersey City-born and South Boston-bred, has had a long career on the inside of both labor and politics. Although he looks like a man in his forties, he was already 22 years old when he got a job as a pressman on the Boston Herald 42 years ago. A good backslapper and able talker, he rose to head the local union, was spotted by George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmen's Union, who picked him as an organizer. Berry, who belongs to the school of polished labor leaders, insisted...
...list of roving reporters who have recently reported biographically,* last fortnight was added the European news manager of United Press. In the 332 painstaking pages of / Found No Peace,† United Pressman Webb Miller describes the troubles he has seen in his 24 years of journalism, affirms that like his boss, Roy Wilson Howard, he fears the world is in for plenty more unpleasantness...
...Senator Radcliffe, Baltimore's Mayor Jackson, National Committeeman Howard Bruce. When the Baltimore Sun discovered this privy excursion, newshawks rushed to the White House to question Press Secretary Stephen Early who told them without cracking a smile that the Maryland meeting had been merely social. Up piped United Pressman Fred Storm: "Say, Steve, is this going to be a non-political campaign...
...confiscated by the Italians or brigands." Viceroy Graziani was reported to have appointed a commission to study ways & means of getting the peasants to plant again. "Rumors that a provisional Ethiopian Government has been formed in the West are ridiculed here," read an Addis Ababa dispatch from United Pressman James Rohrbaugh: "The natives in the unoccupied regions are not fighting against the Italians, but among themselves. The Ethiopians have been awed by Italy's formidable war machine and, despite foreign reports to the contrary, there is no organized resistance to the Italians...
...attracts a scholar to a man of action recently brought Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell and John L. Lewis together. Professor Tugwell had heard of Lewis' plans regarding Steel, wanted to give him "some economic advice." There was a dinner in Alexandria. Shortly thereafter Harvard's Lee Pressman, the Resettlement Administration's General Counsel, was serving the Steel Organization Committee in a similar capacity. Furthermore, when sharecroppers' organizers following their arrest recently could not raise bail in Memphis, it was the U.M.W. which arranged their freedom for them from New York. Sharecroppers are Administrator Tugwell...