Word: digester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While one publisher was pulling in his horns last week another, hitherto not widely famed, was looming on the horizon of U. S. magazine publishing. The advancing figure was that of gruff-voiced Frank Aloysius Tichenor, publisher of Aero Digest and Sportsman Pilot. Last week found him in control of a strange new collection: The Spur, Plumbers' & Heating Contractors' Trade Journal, The Port, Outlook & Independent...
Whether expenditures you make are justified will of course depend entirely upon the returns you may receive. I however feel that you will be amply compensated by the increase in your circulation and by numerous friends you will make. Here is a concrete example. For years the_Literary Digest has boasted of the fact that it is used as a reference book among school children. My one and only interest in your broadcast is that it appeals to my children, who are of school age and I feel that among this element you will be building up a following which...
...East's dissatisfaction with Prohibition was manifest in the 1930 Congressional elections. This year the Wet vote in the House reached an all-time Prohibition peak of 187. The G. O. P. in New Jersey, Illinois and Vermont last month plumped for resubmission or repeal. A Literary Digest poll showed preponderant wet sentiment in every State except Kansas and North Carolina. And last week John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who with his father has given $350,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, wrote Nicholas Murray Butler that the "evils" resulting from Prohibition led him now to favor repeal. Practical politicians...
...editorial note in your issue of May 16 states that 'Tn the U. S. the Literary Digest has imitated TIME'S method of captionmg pictures by quotations from the printed text. Likewise the New York Times magazine section has adopted to a degree the same style of cut caption...
...present at Langley Field last week was NACA's most violent critic, Publisher Frank A. Tichenor of Aero Digest. In his March issue Publisher Tichenor reopened his recurrent bombardment of the committee, charging that it fails in its stated purpose "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight"; that the committee is not creative, merely a measuring agency of work originated by others; that its $1,488,000 Government appropriation could be saved by merger of the laboratories with those of the Bureau of Standards, the Army Research Department at Wikht Field, or the Naval...