Word: clure
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...library tables of most genteel U. S. homes ten years ago lay at least one magazine of high-grade fiction & belles lettres, and one heavy review. The fiction-belles lettres ranks, which once included Everybody's, Munsey's, Century, Mc-Clure's, Scribner's, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, have been heavily decimated. All but the last three have died or been transformed unrecognizably...
...Last week President Hoover received Egyptian Minister Sesestris Sidarouss Pasha (presenting letters of credence). President Walter F. Dexter of Whittier College, Calif, (to discuss his book President Hoover and American Individualism), President Richard Waldo of Mc-Clure Newspaper Syndicate (to report on business conditions after a 10,000-mi. U. S. trip), Editor John B. Chappie of the Ashland, Wis. Daily Press (to denounce the Brothers La Follette as Communists), General Superintendent Ernst Stoltenhoff of Coblenz, Germany (to say "How do you do, Mr. President...
High in a Manhattan office building is the Havana Post's new news bureau. No newshawks rush in and out. No telegraph instruments chatter. Its one-man staff-stubby, genial, bespectacled Carl Chandlee Dickey, onetime Columbia journalism instructor, an editor of World's Work, Mc-Clure's-has in fact little to do with the Havana Post. His function is to lure more U. S. tourists, more U. S. capital to Cuba.* His method: to send writers and artists to Havana. There magnetic Publisher Carl Byoir takes them in hand, makes them see everything, turns them loose...