Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enlightened leaders. It is more convinced than ever before that Henry Adams was right when he demanded that both sides of every issue be expressed. It is closer than it has ever been to its ideal of "veritas," for like a true democracy, it puts its trust in the common sense of the individual and offers him every school of thought from which to choose his own. Its classes contain men from more strata of society, its lecture rooms are the goal of more men, its prestige and influence are felt farther abroad than ever before...
...words) is composed of "Americans who are Jews''-Americans who, as individuals, practice the Jewish faith, or, if they are not religious, admit their Jewish ancestry. The other kind is a smaller but more articulate group of "Jews in America"-Jews who have not only a common religion but a common culture; who believe they are members of a scattered nation; who tend to approve Zionist aims toward a Jewish homeland. Between these two groups there is deep-rooted animosity. Last week, as has happened before, that animosity came out in the open...
Over the entrance to the severely handsome Daily News building in Manhattan is chiseled the following fragment from Abraham Lincoln: HE MADE SO MANY OF THEM. More than 2,000,000 of the common people whom God loved and of whom He made so many read the earthy tabloid produced in this building. Every News executive knows that the inscription is not an empty slogan, for the News has profited and grown because of the publisher's uncommonly sensitive common touch. Its blunt advice to advertisers: Tell it to Sweeney-the Stuyvesants will understand...
...kind of story Publisher Patterson knows the common people will always read: divorces-especially of prominent persons. Last week in Waukegan, Ill. a prominent U. S. couple were divorced. Mrs. Alice Higinbotham Patterson, married 1902, separated 1928, divorced her husband, Daily News Publisher Patterson. It was a good story. In the Daily News it appeared in full detail on page two (actually the first news page since the front page is given to pictures...
...camp.*Last week in Cleveland the new board re-elected Mr. Young's C. & O. management, including President George Doswell Brooke. Directors also voted to pay a 25?dividend on July 1, said they planned to pay another 25? next October. If they do, C. & O.'s common stockholders, who received $3.80 last year, will get $2 in 1938, least since 1921. Meanwhile, final outcome of the big battle for C. & O. waited on the pleasure of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. As the Court reconvened this week, the deadlock was expected to be broken once...