Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invention of chain journalism. His system: find an ambitious young man, stake him as cheaply as possible (the way E. W. Scripps began), let him be part owner; the greater the young man's profits, the greater E. W. Scripps's. It was as an editorial success formula that Publisher Scripps enjoined his young men to attack Graft and Corruption, to cry out for the Common People. He never enjoined them always to put crusading ahead of the busi ness office. He never spent money to house his properties handsomely as civic institutions. They were dividend-paying news...
...sensationalization and cheapening of its news columns recently, within the outer shell of its respectable typography and make-up. It would be a pleasant boon to Bean-town if the good-natured but generally sloppy "Globe" could be prodded into over-coming its reluctance to tamper with its golden formula. It could be made into a first rate paper. And why should not the "Transcript" be chided into forsaking its snobbish contempt for the technical advances of the past quarter century in the newspaper world? In fact, would not Boston and New England profit if our local papers decided...
Finn and Hattie (Paramount). This is a loose improvisation based on some incidents in Donald Ogden Stewart's Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad. It is not as funny as it ought to be partly because it follows the hackneyed formula of a naïve U. S. couple seeing Europe for the first time, partly because of the unnecessary subplot involving Lilyan Tashman as an adventuress who tries to steal $50.000 from Mr. Haddock, and precocious Mitzi Green, who frustrates the conspiracy. It is funny when the insane hilarity of Author Stewart is permitted to come to the surface...
Elder Statesman Elihu Root, now almost 86. marched in his fur-collared overcoat into a Senate committee room one morning last week and took a solitary seat at the end of a long table. He had come to explain to the Foreign Relations Committee his formula whereby the U. S. could join the World Court. But the Committee kept Mr. Root waiting 30 minutes. Behind him rose the loud chatter of peace-loving women who packed the room. Mr. Root ran his fingers impatiently over his short grey mustache...
...relation to the council of the League of Nations, he detailed his objections to the Senate's rigid reservation against the Court's rendering an advisory opinion on any question in which the U. S. has or claims to have an interest. Under the Root formula, views are to be exchanged first between the U. S. and the Court on the question of "interest." If the U. S. protests jurisdiction and the Court still persists in rendering an opinion, the U. S. may "naturally" withdraw "without any imputation of unfriendliness or unwillingness to cooperate generally for peace...