Word: foriegn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor D. F. Wilcox ("wellknown franchise and public utility expert") prepared a table of the percentage content of the newspapers of 25 years ago. He based his figures on the examination of 9,000 columns of reading matter in 110 newspapers from 14 cities. His results: War news 17.9% Foriegn 1.2 Politics 6.4 Crime 3.1 Business 8.2 Sport 5.1 Society 2.3 Miscellaneous 11.1 All News 55.3 Editorials 3.9 Letters 3.2 All Opinion 7.1 Illustrations 3.1 Literature 2.4 Advertisements 32.1 The Newspapers of 1899 100% One Paul W. White then made a corresponding analysis of present-day journals for Editor...
...Diplomatic Corps in Peking decided to wash its hands of the dispute between Sun and the Peking Government as to who shall have control of the surplus funds from Chinese customs at Canton after meeting the foreign obligations. So long as foriegn payments are met the Diplomats do not mind who has the money, it was reported. Dr. Sun will not, however, be permitted to put his hands on the Canton Customs House...