Word: digesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Seaver Woods, minister's son, onetime editor of the Wesleyan Literary Monthly, became editor of the Literary Digest. In the same year Arthur Stimson Draper was graduated from New York University, where he had been campus correspondent for the New York Tribune. Mr. Draper put aside his engineer's degree, went downtown and to work as a Tribune cub. For the next 28 years Editor Woods and Newshawk Draper served their respective publications. Last week Editor Woods, 60, erudite, kindly, somewhat deaf, resigned from the Literary Digest, planned to travel, write books; and Arthur Draper, 50, quit...
...House and Senate still trying to digest his proposals for banking reform and farm relief. President Roosevelt last week sent still another legislative request. "As a further and urgently necessary step in the program to promote economic recovery," read the President's nth special message to Congress, "I ask for legislation to protect small home owners from foreclosure and to relieve them of a portion of the burden of excessive interest and principal payments incurred during the period of higher values and higher earning power...
...read "Adventures of Ideas" once will require some months of the careful reader's time (for it should be read in small doses) and to understand and digest it fully will probably take years, even a life-time, but the time will be well spent--such is the reviewer's estimate of the worth of this book. This is distinctly not just another book by just another Harvard professor. It is an event of some importance when Mr. Whitehead publishes a book...
Cleveland's announced reason for transferring the races: the discovery that ten-day meets in one spot in successive years were more than the public would support. A possible solution offered in the February Aero Digest by Associate Editor Cyril Cassidy ("Cy") Caldwell: Let each year's races be operated like a road show, playing three or four days in, say, New York about Decoration Day; another few days in Philadelphia around July 4; thence to Boston, Chicago, St. Paul, ending in Cleveland on Labor...
...seized upon by editors of the Literary Digest, who put big ads about it in the newspapers, as a circulation booster. It could not make copy fast enough for the gaping maws of newspaper "feature" sections...