Word: formative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Charles Martin who owns 51% of the Post's stock. Two months ago Publisher Martin sent his Man Friday, Harry Baxter Nason Jr., to New York to see what could be done. Last week Mr. Nason assumed temporary editorship of the Post, announced a drastic change in format, began cleaning house. First to go were Editor Julian Starkweather Mason and Managing Editor Ralph Renaud. The Post will be reduced from eight columns to five, will become the second conservative tabloid in the U. S.* There was still a possibility that Publisher Martin's hustling rival, Publisher Julius...
...Wagnalls had suspected the newsdealer was playing a joke on them, they might have hurried to the Digest office and seen copies of this week's issue which sported no cover photograph but a caricature - of Budget Director Lewis W. Douglas by famed Cuban Artist Massaguer. The new format of the Digest is technically the work of its new editor, able Arthur Stimson Draper, longtime correspondent and assistant editor of the New York Herald Tribune (TIME. May 22). But the enterprise of breaking moth-eaten tradition is that of the man who made the tradition famous, Robert Joseph Cuddihy...
...were spoken out of the cor ner of his mouth. That the greatest U. S. captains are not industrial, in Poet Mac-Leish's opinion, is indicated by his title. The six poems in Frescoes for Mr. Rochefeller's City are issued in a format and at a price that deserve popularity - a pamphlet that sells...
...newsstands have lately been enriched by the appearance of a new weekly, Polity, similar to the Forum in format, reminiscent of the Nation in editorial policy, and emanating from Chicago. At present, in its seventh issue, Polity can boast of no more than sixteen pages, but it is distinguished by an alert point of view and a tincture of intelligent cynicism which should go far toward tempting success...
...nice and necessary gesture on the back flyleaf "the author joins with the publishers in congratulating S. A. Jacobs; who designed the format of Eimi, solved all technical problems connected with the typesetting and printing, and from start to finish personally supervised this book's production...