Word: digestants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday Evening Post is the magazine most in demand at Harvard. Close behind it come Time, Collier's, the Reader's Digest, Esquire, and the New Yorker...
Bald, cantankerous Rudolph E. Leppert is not only art editor of The Literary Digest but a draughtsman in his own right. Weeks ago he sent a pen & ink drawing of President Roosevelt to the exhibition of Manhattan's Salmagundi Club, an organization of elderly esthetes. Last week the Salmagundi hanging committee accepted the Leppert drawing, stuck it up behind a door. Rudolph E. Leppert also happens to be a rampant admirer of the New Deal. As he saw it, the Salmagundi Club was guilty of a "slur at the President...
...became his sponsors, labored tirelessly over a disjointed body of players who badly needed work. From its feeble beginnings the orchestra has grown fast. First winter there were 87 guarantors. Now there are 1,600. First concerts had programs which were not too difficult to play, easy to digest. Conductor Kindler has waxed bolder as his audiences waxed larger, plans for this season a rich Brahms festival with Pianist Myra Hess...
Such were the results of a poll of some 50,000 ballots conducted by the Literary Digest and tabulated last week. Indicated was a sensational shift in public opinion since the Digest's poll last Autumn, when 51% of the votes were pro-New Deal. The Digest did not publish these results last week because it will presently conduct a much larger poll of millions of ballots. But the preliminary returns were shown to many a businessman who grinned contentedly...
...preachers and laymen too busy to cover the whole field of "informational and inspirational writing" appeared the Religious Digest, edited by Rev. Dr. Bernard J. Mulder, 39, Reformed Church minister of Grand Rapids, Mich. Resembling the Readers' Digest in format, this monthly ($3 per year) culls and condenses articles from such journals as Anglican Theological Review, Church Management, Religious Telescope, Character, includes book reviews, sermon outlines, pious "features...