Word: copyright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to Philadelphia. Soon he entered the publishing business, wrote and published Modern Illustrated Banking and Modern Illustrated Bookkeeping (which still pay him royalties through American Book Co.). He also operated as publisher in Rochester, N. Y. and New York City, reprinting old prose and poetry on which the copyright had run out. About that time he was also touring the U. S. as X. La Motte Sage, giving exhibitions of hypnotism. This led to The Philosophy of Personal Influence, distributed by mail from Rochester, which offered courses in hypnotism, and earned him & associates $1,500,000 before postal inspectors...
...Sherrinford, Watson was originally Ormond Sacker,--and to prove it there is reprinted a cut of the first page of Doyle's manuscript. Doyle, himself, engaged in detective activities with gratifying success. Four publishers sniffed at the "Study in Scarlet" before Ward, Lock & Co. achieved immortality by purchasing the copyright for 25 pounds...
...reproduction, translation, adaptation and of presentation by all methods actually known or by any which might be hither-to invented reserved for all countries." This translation lacks, perhaps, the sonority and fullness of the original French; nevertheless, we feel that it gives some conception of the farsightedness of the copyright. We only hope that, in translating, publishing, and representing it we have not laid ourselves open to the ministrations of the French secret service...
...fame still rests upon In His Steps. It might be supposed that his wealth rests there too. But last week in the Christian Century Author Sheldon revealed that he received precisely $275 for In His Steps from the church weekly which first published it. Then he discovered that his copyright was defective, the weekly having filed only one copy with the copyright department instead of two as by law required. U. S. publishers soon found this out. In 36 years Author Sheldon has received only what publishers voluntarily gave him-some $3,000. Some of the translators and publishers sent...
...Civil War. More colorful than their dean are Maury Henry Riddle Paul ("Cholly Knickerbocker") and Baron George Wrangel ("Billy Benedick") of Hearst's American and Journal, respectively. The Baron, 30, is a nephew of famed "White Russian" General Peter Nicholaievich Wrangel. Dapper, bubbling "Cholly Knickerbocker" owns the copyright to his nom de plume, a valuable asset. His breezy column is famed for "plugging" favorites. Philadelphia society, according to Joseph Hergesheimer who likes parties and lives near there, is as dull as what the society editors write about it. Oldest and most reliable society editor is Olga Gel- hause...