In August 1936, six New York Times editorial men, headed by grave 42-year-old Oliver Franklin Holden, assistant make-up editor, decided that "in this era of turmoil" newspapermen needed organization but along totally different lines from the bread-&-butter aggressiveness of the American Newspaper Guild. The six drew in their friends, organized the American Press Society, "free to foster the economic welfare of its members by methods which would not tend to reduce newspaper salaries to minimum standards or lead to strikes or other coercive and violent measures tending to impair the reputation and...
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