Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boyd's City Dispatch of Manhattan has been in the wholesale name business for 105 years. To salesmen and promoters it sells long lists of wealthy widows, clubmen, semi-millionaires, millionaires, multimillionaires and plain rich people. Last week Boyd's City Dispatch mailed out to its clients Bulletin 68-the latest name-list quotations. For $200 an energetic advertising manager can get the names of 14,441 people in New York City worth $100,000 or more. A batch of 721 multimillionaires costs $15, the wealthiest widows of Greater New York (1,172), $20. For $17.50 a buyer...
Contributions signed by graduates in this week's Alumni Bulletin are striking in the similarity of their criticism, tacit or explicit, of the broad general policy of the University at present. Three letters condemn utilitarianism that leads to the abolition of Latin as a requirement for an A.B. degree, while an article by Moses W. Ware '02, effectively points out how essential for even so "utilitarian" a field as business is the elusive quality of culture or balance which is the highest aim of a college education...
...making the gift Mr. Straus explained, "My purpose in taking up the suggestion that I read in the Alumni Bulletin was to provide what appeared to be a missing incentive to House athletic activities. I believe in the House plan, and think that the more nearly a friendly competition can be developed between them, the more will the dwellers in each house develop an affection...
Died. Fremont Older, 78, crusading editor of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin; of heart disease while driving his automobile; near Stockton, Calif. Campaigning against graft in the city government, Editor Older of the Bulletin in 1906 piled up enough evidence to send Grafter Abraham Ruef to jail. Then, believing him scapegoat of a corrupt system, he fought long to get Ruef freed. Older in 1916 started a vehement crusade for Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings, during which he accused District Attorney Charles M. Fickert of "framing" the pair and was assaulted by Fickert in a hotel lobby. Refused support...
Such spectacles, with their accompanying uproar, occurred in nearly every city in the land last week. Meanwhile the false report about imprisonment had blanketed the two great radio networks, had been repeated in theatres, on bulletin boards. Miserably unhappy offender was the great Associated Press...