Word: counters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...International Workers Athletic Meet, in Chicago, July 29 to Aug. 1, organized to conflict with the Olympic Games by the National Counter-Olympic Committee, of which famed Tom Mooney is honorary chairman. The Counter-Olympic Committee objects to the Olympic games because: 1) They will be held in the State where Tom Mooney is imprisoned; 2) the Soviet Union was not invited to send a team...
...Harry Strachan, telling of missioneering in Latin America: "This new venture needs very special prayer. The [Catholic] priests have sent down to Santa Cruz, where Messrs. Young and Lopez have been working since the end of December, four nuns who are copying exactly our own methods of work. . . . This counter-propaganda will keep many souls out of the Kingdom of Christ. Only prayer can avail...
...same boat. But if Harvard, in establishing the Houses, wishes also to promote inter-House athletic competition, it is even more important that the crews for the non-University men should be kept House eights. Any other system would defeat the purposes of the House Plan, and would run counter to the opinion expressed by the Student Council last year...
...well-known public relations counsel whom the committee interviewed were Edward Bernays, promoter of the celebration of Thomas Edison's eightieth birthday, and Ivy Lee, counsel for John D. Rockefeller, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Charles A. Lindbergh. The committee also is interested in the counter-publicity organizations which newspapers have formed to protect their advertising space against the competition of artificial news items. Such a society is the American Newspaper Publishing Association that sends its members regular bulletins on the latest publicity stunts and stories and their sources. This association also helps protect the public against accepting as news material...
...share. The company has an authorized issue of 500,000 shares, of which 350,000 will be outstanding. As an inducement to buy, the company can cite a $1,684,000 volume of gross business last year. Peak year was 1929, with $2,100,000. Over-the-counter sales will be handled by Pringle, Price & Co. Largest stockholders will be Mrs. MacDougall, Son Allan, and Chain Store Fund, Inc., an investment trust which bought a minority interest in the MacDougall business two years ago. With new capital Mrs. MacDougall plans to expand her business outside the metropolitan area, to advertise...