Word: digesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week The Literary Digest went into the insurance business. For $1 a year it offered an accident policy which would pay amounts varying from $10,000 for death in railroad or steamship wreck to $500 for being fatally hit by a truck or by lightning. Normally this policy would cost about $5 per year, depending upon precise details. To get the Digest rate it was also necessary to subscribe to the magazine for one year...
...case, the Digest views it not as a Northcliffian stunt but as public service. Said the Digest in a long letter to prospects...
...adult organization, amply financed and operating with hopeful zest (TIME, April 28 et seq.). Under Wet pressure the House Judiciary Committee held hearings, the first in a decade, on the repeal of the 18th Amendment (TIME, Feb. 10 et seg.). With a fresh Wet Movement obviously on, the Literary Digest conducted a nation-wide poll on Prohibition which showed that out of 4,806,464 persons balloting, only 1,464,098 favored existing Dry conditions whereas 3,342,366 wanted some sort of Change...
...free to print to date has been the famed "The Sejm is a prostitute!" (TIME, July 9, 1928 et seq.). Last week the Dictator enlarged a little on his usual theme of excoriation. Said he of the constitution: "It is like a bad stew; no stomach is able to digest it." And then: "It exudes such an odor that the street in which Parliament is located smells unpleasantly!" And finally: "A pigsty for the Sejm...
...Literary Digest of some two years ago were several columns of moonshine and nonsense anent how some Indians who lived in a certain altitude near Albuquerque, N. M. had a penchant for long distance running as no other white men had, etc., etc., etc. Yet had the writer been informed he would have found out that these records were away below those of Newton made only a few months and years before this, and none seemed to know that the peerless runner George Littlesond of Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, came to Madison Square, N. Y. and on Dec. 1882 covered...