Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspaper advertising is an economic waste, raising the price of the product without improving, the quality. But, as Dean Ackerman states, "journalism as a business is a public service unique in American economics," and with the problem exception of radio broadcasting, no business has the possibility of such direct and powerful control over the standards of modern advertising. Too often newspapers have though it possible to maintain a "courageous" editorial policy while at the same time maintaining an advertising and business policy that would stand little scrutiny; too few of the larger journals of the country have recognized the paradox...
Sanders & Hanna. The Maine election upset every intelligent Republican except plump, easy-going Everett Sanders. Chairman of the Republican National Committee. His job is to direct a national contest which in its economic outlines and social undertones has been compared to the presidential campaign of 1896. In that September, William Jennings Bryan seemed to have the November election won hands down. That year Mark Hanna was the G. O. P. boss, than whom there never has been a smarter. His brilliantly ruthless management of the Republican campaign resulted in the election of William McKinley by some 600,000 votes...
...last week men and women began knotting themselves into a mob before a branch office of the Associated Charities on St. Clair Avenue. Most of them were jobless. Donato Ferrante and Ben Favorito, their leaders, told them Associated Charities were deliberately starving them. The crowd yelled their assent to direct action. They would raid the branch office, get the wherewithal for one square meal. Suddenly six squads of police trotted up, threw themselves about the office. The mob of 800 was about to charge when the police set off tear gas. The raiders fell back blubbering. Police clubs broke...
Justice Staley then proceeded to give his personal opinion on Governor Roosevelt's handling of the Walker case. He opined that the Albany hearings had been unfair because: i) the Governor had not called witnesses to make out a direct case against the Mayor and be cross-examined by the defense; 2) the Mayor's private life was not ground for removal unless moral turpitude were disclosed; 3) the Mayor's first-term activities had been passed on by the people and were therefore beyond the Governor's scrutiny. Though he lost his plea. Mayor Walker...
...them into operation $160,000,000 was raised by forcing the central bank to buy an issue of treasury bonds. All six corporations are intended to win Chile's business from the hands of U. S., German and British firms, but unlike Soviet Russia there will be no direct confiscation...