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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Starting at a low of 6,300,000 listeners (Hooper rating, 9.7) on June 10, 1936, the President wandered over graphic foothills for four years, suddenly leaped to a peak of 42,500,000 listeners (57.0) for the Stab-in-the-Back broadcast of June 10, 1940. As national self-absorption went down, Presidential audiences went up- 43,900,000 (59.0) for the Arsenal of Democracy Speech; 53,800,000 (69.8) for the Declaration of National Emergency; 62,100,000 (79.0) for the War Message...
...Japan is immeasurably more than an enemy in the Pacific; it is much more than the ally of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini." To make his point graphic, Kiralfy triangulates the eastern hemisphere. The apex he puts at Cape St. Vincent in Portugal; the base runs from Singapore to Bering Strait (see cut}. "The Japanese islands are," he says, "and for all time must remain geographically in strategic domination of the vital base line of the Eurasian Triangle." "It is imperative," he insists, "that this Eurasian Triangle be seen for what it really is-a bomb of sufficient power...
...graphic analogy, the Committee represented knowledge as a tree of which philosophy was the trunk, with the various fields as branches and the facts themselves as minute leaves. Harvard professors were criticized because many of them "seem to believe that then job is only to present as many as possible of the important facts in their field," without attempting to integrate these facts into more general material...
...geographic research. Seniors or graduates with courses in mapmaking, geography, or applied geology may very well qualify for this work. It is not essential that an applicant have a great deal of geographical knowledge or skill as a draftsman. The chief characteristics to be sought are adaptability and a graphic sense of what is conveyed by maps...
...exhibition, under the auspices of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, consists of the 50 books selected from the 631 submitted by 148 publishers in the United States, which were judged best from the point of view of their physical excellence. In making their choices, the jury, consisting of three representatives of the publishing world, considered such factors as the material design, the legibility and attractiveness of the page, the use of color and illustrations, the typographic design throughout, and the artistic conception and cohesion of the whole...