Word: afternoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Town. The afternoon Item was started as a cooperative venture in 1877, fell into the hands of West Virginia-born James Mcllhany Thomson 30 years later, while its editor was serving time in jail for libel. Publisher Thomson hired scholarly Marshall Ballard (who had been a fellow student at Johns Hopkins) to edit the Item...
...Item brought out a morning edition called the Tribune. Founded to help Publisher Thomson fight the Times-Picayune, the Tribune gave New Orleans its fourth daily (third was the Item's afternoon rival, the States) and made it one of the hottest competitive newspaper towns in the country. Within six years the Tribune was close behind the States in circulation, the Item and Tribune together outsold the Times-Picayune...
...circulation soared to 47,817, then relapsed; the Item hit a peak of 67,603 and likewise receded. Meanwhile, Colonel Ewing died. Publisher Thomson tried to buy the States and merge it with his Item. Instead, to his bitter surprise, the Times-Picayune got the States for an afternoon edition...
...Saturday afternoon Fairbank and Thomas C. Pressly '40 in the Concluding Guardian broadcast for this semester, discussed "America's choice in the Far East." Fairbank, who is a recognized authority on the Far East, felt that a summary and comment on the broadcast would be appropriate...
After two plenary sessions in the Winthrop Senior Common Room Friday morning and afternoon, three study groups, conducted by Edward Bernays. I. L. Child, and Rupert Emerson, associate professor of Government; discussed propaganda and education, propaganda and the individual, and propaganda...