Word: heraldings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meanwhile, new trouble broke out in Texas, where three associated dailies-Brownsville Herald, McAllen Monitor and Harlingen Star-turned off their presses and padlocked their doors rather than sign closed-shop contracts with their printers...
Last fortnight Hollywood's loudest mouthpiece. Editor Martin Quigley's Motion Picture Herald, announced that the industry did not intend to continue paying reviewing charges to such a fickle outfit. As proof that Hollywood means what it says Editor Quigley cited In Old Chicago, which had the board's cachet, did not choose...
...hard-driving figures in U. S. journalism, the demoniac James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald was the most reckless, the most imaginative. Before he was 30 he had sent H. M. Stanley to Africa with blunt orders to find Livingstone. For circulation's sake he sent out scientific expeditions, wangled government support for his journalistic adventures and launched balloon races that started as many as 50 gas bags blowing wildly over the U. S. Nobody knows what wires Bennett pulled in Rutherford Hayes's Administration to persuade the U. S. Navy to back the terrible attempt...
...Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands, to St. Michaels in bleak Norton Sound, through storms on the shallow Bering Sea to St. Lawrence Bay on the coast of Siberia, through the Bering Straits to the black cliffs of Herald Island, the Jeannette pushed her way. There she was frozen in, far south of the Pole, even south of waters regularly visited by whalers. Contrary to common belief, the frozen wastes were not silent and inert. Submerged ice floes smashed steadily against the hull of the Jeannette. The pressure on her timbers made the ship crack with a sound like repeated rifle...
Best-seller lists are compiled each week by the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune and The Publishers' Weekly. They give a clear picture of U. S. week-to-week buying of new books. But do they give an accurate indication of U. S. literary taste? Librarians (who hold that Mark Twain is still the most widely-read U. S. author) aver that they do not. Publishers of inexpensive reprints are inclined to agree with the librarians. Releasing figures last fortnight on the sale of his Modern Library series (95? and $1.25), Publisher Bennett Cerf disclosed that Dostoyevsky...