Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question: "Is it oriole, redbird or bluebird, or some strange, un-Auduboned new bird?" S. Clay Williams favors an NRA of neutral color with no spectacular plumage. That makes him a considerable asset to the New Deal. For when the shooting begins over the form of NRA's renewal, a neutral bird will be the poorest target...
...excellent reason no Hearstpaper is in the group. Hearstpapers have their own uniform magazine section, prosperous & preposterous American Weekly. This Week is the first serious effort to compete with American Weekly for national advertising in color. Against Mr. Hearst's 6,000,000 Sunday readers, This Week claims slightly more than 4,000,000. Advertising rate: $11,200 a color page (tabloid size...
...circulation front there will be less competition. Lovers of American Weekly's gaudiness will find little to excite them in This Week. Printed in color gravure, This Week is edited by Mrs. William Brown Meloney, genteel white-haired editor of the New York Herald Tribune's magazine (TIME, Oct. 8). First issue includes fiction by Sinclair Lewis, Rupert Hughes, Fannie Hurst; articles by Britain's Lord Strabolgi, Scientist Roy Chapman Andrews, Artist Neysa McMein -big names which the average individual Sunday newspaper could not conveniently...
Brooklyn-born, son of the founder of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Joseph Knapp was an early partner of the late Tobacco Tycoon James Buchanan Duke (see p. 59) in publishing the defunct New York Recorder. One of the first to tinker with multiple color printing, he founded American Lithographic Co. Thirty years ago he first tried the Sunday supplement idea with a company called Associated Sunday Magazines, but it failed miserably for various reasons when the War kited the cost of newsprint...
...isolated, spurned beneath the victor's heels and seemed the poorest ragamuffin in Europe, today, while still lacking an army, becomes a factor of might once more." THE LOCARNO PACT was prettied up in "The Spirit of Locarno" by being tied with what was called "blue ribbon, the color of the Blue Bird of Happiness, the color of peace." Supplemental Locarno accords were made even prettier with a Maypole effect achieved by intertwining ribbons in the colors of the signatory states. Inevitably this lush, pre-Depression spirit gave way to the spirit of today's hard-boiled pacts...