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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such were typical paid advertisements last week in the "agony column" of the latest issue of the anti-Jewish fortnightly Am Heiligen Quell Deutscher Kraft ("At the Holy Well of German Power"), conducted by General Erich Ludendorff who used to rate as a crackpot. Last week a Ludendorff editorial announced that the Jewish people are secretly supporting the Japanese people to launch a war of Asia against Europe, "so that the nations shall tear each other to pieces for the benefit of the Jews...
Dailies which subscribe to the North American Newspaper Alliance were privileged one day last week to publish half a column of disconnected words. Numbering 600, the words comprised the vocabulary of Carol Lynn Rowe, 20-month-old daughter of a Creston, Iowa dentist. Carol thus knew five times as many words as the average baby of her age. Dr. Wendell Johnson of the University of Iowa accorded her an Intelligence Quotient of 165 (normal: 100), called her a prodigy...
...improve their newspapers' appearance. Torn two ways by its journalist's contempt for photography and its publisher's interest in photography, Editor & Publisher has studiously ignored news photography for many a long year. Last week it turned its head, opened its eyes, began a regular weekly column on news photography called "Eyes of the Press." Author: Jack Price...
Being a Sports fan, I am naturally attracted to most articles dealing with sports, especially if the article is headed something like this: "1-to-1" [TIME, July 29]. And more especially, if that heading is found in your Religion column. It was only natural that my curiosity was aroused Behold my surprise when I discovered the name of my onetime prexy and admonisher! I refer to Dr. J. Oliver Buswell Jr., who with his colleague and fundamentalist friend, Dr. J. Gresham Machen, have been battling the Presbyterian Church, due to their affiliation with the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign...
Such commercial notices announcing the arrival of out-of-town buyers last week marched down column after column of the business pages of the august New York Times. In full swing and busier than usual was the autumn buying season. On the Times' front page appeared this headline: ARRIVAL OF BUYERS SETS 6-YEAR JULY RECORD. This fact the Times alone among all New York dailies was capable of proving because it is the only newspaper outside the trade which prints without charge buyers' listings. According to the Times, business was so active that no less than...