Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remained stalled in SEC last week and pending their approval, by a none-too-friendly Administration, Mr. Hearst's feelings must have continued akin to those of Hearst employes who still waited to see the full extent of the great retrenchment. Reassuring to the staff of his Chicago Herald & Examiner last week was a statement from the Chief that no modification, consolidation, suspension or sale of that property was contemplated. Yet the fact remained that the Chicago Hearst staff had been experimenting with tabloid formats, apparently motivated by the inroads of the new young tabloid Chicago Times upon...
That U. S. church membership is increasing faster than the population was the bullish message of the annual statistical report of Christian Herald, published last week. The last to be prepared by Lutheran George Linn Kieffer, who died in his Rosedale, L. I. pulpit this spring, the Herald tables were completed by his wife Maude. According to the Kieffers' denominational sources, there are 63,493,036 church members in the land, 837,404 more than last year. Rate of increase was 1.33%, as compared to .71% for population...
...grow faster than big ones. Denominations with a membership of more than 50,000 gained an average 1.1%, while lesser sects "reached the astonishing figure of 29.49%." Last year 49.43% of the population was "affiliated with some church," as compared to 46.6% in 1926. Over its figures the Herald exulted: "A direct contradiction to pessimists who claim the churches have lost ground...
Next day, to Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner came one of those incredible strokes of luck that make newspaper life worth living. Robert Irwin, the most sought-after murderer then at large in the U. S. (TIME, April 12), had just telephoned the Chicago Tribune ("Worlds Greatest Newspaper"), offered to surrender for a price, was not believed. So he called the Hearst paper, had his terms accepted, and slouched into their offices to pour out the story of the Gedeon murders in a voluminous, jumbled, sex-loaded signed confession. From late Saturday until Sunday afternoon Hearst writers and cameramen...
...times changed, the flamboyant Hearst-Pulitzer technique was outgrown by the Manhattan morning public. The more sedate and reliable Times, Herald and Tribune crowded the World and the American down upon the subway trade...