Word: digester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City and State, the New York News fortnight ago reported that 10,771 people approached by News representatives at home and in the street were going to vote for Franklin Roosevelt Nov. 3 as compared with 6,775 who favored Alf Landon for President. Same day the Literary Digest's national Presidential straw vote revealed that in New York State 99,228 voters, telephone-subscribers and club members were for Landon, 34,120 for Roosevelt. When he saw this discrepancy, the News's energetic Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson summoned an editor, had him get the Digest...
...that sounds like easy money!" said Mr. Funk. "Let me talk it over with some of the boys in the office." After talking it over, Mr. Funk was less enthusiastic. The Digest figures Captain Patterson had challenged did not include New York City, which was yet to be accounted for in the magazine's poll...
Though he still "didn't know of an easier way to make $10,000," if the wager were on the final figures of Digest and News, Mr. Funk felt that "as a matter of policy it would be impossible for the Literary Digest to bet on its' own poll. . . . The magazine takes no sides . . . plays no favorites...
Last July Surgeon General Parran wrote a lengthy article called "Stamp Out Syphilis" which appeared simultaneously in The Reader's Digest and Survey Graphic. Last week the editors of The Reader's Digest bragged: "Discussion [of this article] in conversation everywhere and in the Press of the nation has brought the whole subject into the open for the first time. To date more than 1,500 organizations and individuals have ordered 276,021 reprints of the article for distribution...
...gentleman farmer's life of herds, droves, flocks and bevies, of hunting, fishing and camping. His family estate lies close to Washington. But today he has little time for those avocations, or lor his family of four young sons. Wrote he last summer in his Reader's Digest trumpet call: ''If the eradication of syphilis were to be my one official duty during the next 20 years I should attempt it very confidently with a budget substantially less than that which has been expended during the past 20 years for a single animal disease- bovine tuberculosis...