Word: heraldings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next two years British newspaper readers could get anything from can openers to radios free. It was expensive but it built circulations. The Herald was first to reach 2,000,000 (in 1933), only to be outstripped by the Express...
Press Lord No. 4 is Julius Salter Elias, Lord Southwood, a onetime errand boy who has high-pressured his undistinguished Daily Herald to the 2,000,000 mark. No. 3 press lord is Lord Camrose of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post* (700,000), a Conservative who suffers from gout and jaundice. No. 2 is Lord Rothermere. He acquired control of the Daily Mail (1.530,000) from his brother, Lord Northcliffe, a sensationalist who fathered the whole lordly breed. No. 1, by intelligence, ability, resource and his gift for the common touch-as well as by circulation figures- is William...
...cost the Express $600,000 a year and the Mail, with its larger circulation, nearly twice as much.* Ten years later another premium war swept Fleet Street and bled $5,000,000 from the Express and its three big rivals- the Daily Mail (1,530,000), Daily Herald (2,000,000) and News Chronicle (1,330,000). The Laborite Daily Herald started it by offering a complete set of Dickens for a few shillings. Beaverbrook was in Berlin. He hurried back and called a parley of the Press Lords at the Savoy Hotel. All were ready to compromise, but Beaverbrook...
...Judges of the $250,000 Movie Quiz Contest, announced last week: New York's Representative Bruce Barton, Boy Scout Leader James E. West, Tennist Helen Wills Moody, Author Hendrik Willem van Loon, Mrs. Ogden Reid, vice president of the New York Herald Tribune...
...Fellows and their Houses are: John McL. Clark, Washington Post editorial writer, to Dunster; Wesley Fuller, Boston Herald reporter, to Winthrop; Frank S. Hopkins, Baltimore Sun reporter, and Edwin A. Lahey, Chicago Daily News reporter, both to Adams; Hilary H. Lyons, editorial writer on the Mobile Press Register, to Leverett; Louis M. Lyons, Boston Globe reporter to Lowell; Edwin J. Paxton, Jr., editorial writer for the Paducah Sun-Democrat, to Eliot; and Osburn Zuber, chief editorial writer on the Birmingham News, to Kirkland...