By invariable custom the Associated Press meeting (see above) is followed by the convention of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. For four days the corridors of the Waldorf-Astoria were overrun by some 500 publishers, heaviest attendance on record. They transacted all real business behind closed doors, issued self-congratulatory hand-outs which most Manhattan dailies dutifully printed by the yard.
Keynote of most A. N. P. A. conventions is defensive. Last year the bugbear was radio. This year it was the New Deal. Speech after speech, report after report whanged loudly on a few...
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