Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beaverbrook's guide to the aspiring poor was printed not in his own gigantic Express, but in an obscure London weekly, the Recorder, which failed to tell its readers that the articles had been written and published 20 years before. His smart Publisher William Brittain, once briefly a Beaver boy himself, had persuaded Lord Beaverbrook to let him reprint the articles free. Result: the Recorder's circulation jumped from 10,000 to 40,000. If no one else made a fortune out of the Beaver's advice, Publisher Brittain seemed likely...
LEVI JACKSON, properly named by sports printers, "The Ebony Express," is Eli's vaunted breakaway runner. Having more speed and power than that other famous Elm City boy, Albie Booth, the freshman speedster has showed his heels to every Yale opponent this fall...
Stern's papers were target No. 2 in the Guild's national campaign to get $100 a week for experienced reporters. The first enemy, Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express (TIME, Sept. 23), was still shut down and the strike was in its ninth week. Dave Stern was a hand-picked target: Rival Walter (son of Moe) Annenberg's richer Inquirer (circ. 600,000) had countered Guild demands with an offer identical to Stern's, but so far had been left alone. To Guild members, who might also be baffled by the discrimination, the Guild...
Actual details of his Odyssey were completely blacked out by the amnesia. But a Railway Express Agency receipt for his large sea bag dated October 28, from Jacksonville, a registration slip from a Philadelphia lodging house on October 30, and a job application to the Oceanographic Institute in Woods Hole marked what he thought were the limits north and south. Thus the Montreal resident who reported him there on October 29 was clearly mistaken...
...said that America must immediately remove the "moral stigma" overhanging the entire issue and express a willingness to permit the entry of 100,000 displaced European Jews into this country...