Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...custom. Col. McCormick climbed into his old Rolls-Royce roadster and drove into town for a night's work, beginning with an editorial conference, where everyone talked about the weather. Next day the Tribune's biggest news story of the day swung down from an eight-column streamer: 100.1° HEAT IS JUNE RECORD But a much more important story stood in the editorial page, in a leader written to Publisher McCormick's order by one of his crack editorial writers, Tiffany Blake. Excerpts: ". . . The Tribune proposes ... to air condition the Tribune Tower. The improvement at this...
...issue, Page 45, Centre column...
...circulation of 2,000, should preach the romance of honest toil. †Ladies' Home Journal, as nearly everyone knows, was originated and long edited by the publisher's first wife, Louisa Knapp Curtis. She had scoffed at the poor quality of the women's column in Tribune & Farmer, offered to write a better one herself. Her column grew to a supplement, then to a whole magazine. Many are the stories documenting Publisher Curtis' belief in advertising. Before the Satevepost earned a penny he had poured $1,000,000 into it, largely in advertising and promotion. Once...
...World & Independent wired Associated Press in Denver that he wanted coverage of the Indianapolis automobile races. Presently AP wired its reply: WILL OVERHEAD WINNER OF INDIANAPOLIS RACES. Editor Kirkpatrick jumped with excitement. An hour later the World & Independent's 1,750 readers puzzled over an 8-column streamer...
...compared Morgan tactics to "a thimblerigging game." Of letting friends in on the ground floor of stock prices, said the Baltimore Sun, "Taking the practice as a whole, it is bad." The reticent Kansas City Star found nothing in the story to warrant deviation from its style of one-column headlines. Editorially: "Mr. Morgan is wrong when he contends that private banking should not be subjected to ... scrutiny...