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While a torrent of gold poured in through his magazines, Publisher Bernarr Macfadden could afford to ignore the rivulets which trickled out through his unprofitable Manhattan tabloid Evening Graphic. But Macfadden Publications Inc.. which earned $1,839,000 in 1928, earned only $1,395,000 in 1930.* Few months ago Publisher Macfadden, for the first time, turned his personal attention to the Graphic, which has never made money since he started...
Thus ended an attempt "to determine the practicability of a transatlantic air messenger service, to be backed by Mr. Macfadden." Owned by Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, the black-&-gold Lockheed Altair monoplane carried a 50-lb. payload, an additional gas tank in the rear cockpit where Publisher Macfadden was wont to ride about the U. S. Taking off from Newark Airport late at night, Pilot Reichers roared to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, in 6 hr. 19 min. As he taxied up the field, the plane's tail skid threw a rock through the fuselage, injuring the stabilizer controls. Quickly repairing the damage...
...hind legs and fight for what we believe to be right with all the energy and intelligence we can command. Bernarr MacFadden in The New York Evening Graphic...
...National Revenue at Ottawa. An expert advocate of the Canadian sales tax who had addressed William Randolph Hearst's junketeers last year on the subject (TIME, Nov. 30), Mr. Jones traveled to Washington. There he was seen to be a lean, vigorous-looking individual with hair like Bernarr Macfadden's, features like Henry Ford's. To the Ways & Means Committee he last week explained the smooth and successful workings of Canada's 4% manufacturers' tax. The public, he said, hardly noticed it. By licensing manufacturers it was easy to administer...
...Desperate Desmond"?and created a thoroughly Jewish character, Abie Kabibble. The new strip he named "Abie the Agent." For 18 years Abie appeared every day in the Hearstpapers (syndicated by Hearst's King Feature Syndicate), until last fortnight. On the day he disappeared, something new popped up in Bernarr Macfadden's New York Graphic. It was a strip headlined: HERSHFIELD'S A. KABIBBLE. ... By the Creator of "Abie the Agent...