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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dail Eireann (lower house) last week returned lanky, professorial Prime Minister Eamon de Valera and his government to power for five more years. At last reports "Dev's" Fianna Fail party had captured 70 of the 138 seats, the Fine Gael party of his oldtime opponent, former President William T. Cosgrave, 40 seats, the Labor party six and the Independents seven. Under Eire's involved system of proportional representation, the final tabulation will be a matter of days but observers held that of the 15 unconfirmed seats, five would go to the Government, the same number...
Married. Joanne Bass, 22, daughter of New Hampshire's former Governor Robert P. Bass; to Marshall Field Jr., 22, Harvard senior, grandson of the late Chicago Financier Marshall Field; in East Walpole, Mass. Like his friend John Roosevelt (see p. 9), at whose wedding he ushered two days before his own, he received his Harvard degree in absentia...
...nine years, Publisher Samuel Emory Thomason of Chicago's tabloid Daily Times (p.m.) was Vice-President and Business Manager of the Chicago Tribune (a.m.), published by his Northwestern Law School classmate and former law partner, Robert Rutherford McCormick. The Daily Times is the closest imitation in U. S. journalism of New York's tabloid Daily News, published by ''Bertie'' Mc-Cormick's cousin, Joseph Medill Patterson.* The Chicago Times, like the New York Daily News, is a gay and vigorous supporter of the New Deal. Nothing delights the Times more than baiting solemn...
...city of 500,000 population except Washington, D. C. has five daily newspapers. Result has been that only one- Frank Brett Noyes's stodgy Star-has made money; seldom have they achieved any particular journalistic distinction. Five years ago among the least distinguished was the Post. When former Federal Reserve Board Governor and RFC Chairman Eugene Meyer bought the rundown property in 1933 for $825,000, few thought that a banker, entering the publishing business at the age of 57, would make newspaper history...
...staff averaging 25. Last week his 205th interpretive letter went to 5,565 subscribers throughout the world (by air mail in the U. S.). Typically, it commented on both the primary (year-to-year) and secondary (month-to-month) trends of the market; reminded subscribers that the former ''continues to point downward." said that the latter's trend will be shown by consistent upward cr downward swings of both averages...