Word: houseorgan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another campaign to sell Business as an institution is being run in newspapers by Nation's Business, houseorgan of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. The current number in the series describes management as the "nation's most important resource," managers as today's "forgotten men." Reads the copy: "Isn't it time to quit talking about this land of ours as if it were split into hard and fast classes, and to think of it for what it really is, the greatest spot on the globe, if not the only one. where classes...
...Business that he was moved to ask: "Are we guarding the back door against bewhiskered aliens with bombs and torches and at the same time inviting Communism in the front door dressed up in top hat and frock coat?" When the editor of the Chamber of Commerce's houseorgan demanded the return of the "old order," powermen leaped cheering to their feet...
...years Reporter Howey was city editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, founded by Charles T. Yerkes as a political houseorgan for that tycoon's traction schemes. When the paper had done its job, Yerkes presented it to his editor, George Wheeler Hinman, with an electric light plant in the Loop for good measure to pay the paper's bills. Into office went Mayor Fred A. Busse, good friend of the Chicago Tribune and of Samuel Insull, who wanted the competing Hinman light plant eliminated. When Mayor Busse started to put the Hinman plant out of business, Publisher Hinman...
...Publisher Vincent Astor published fiction in Today, his houseorgan of the Roosevelt Administration, he could do worse than print at least the final part of Authoress Barnes's latest novel. It purports to be a study of the social changes which the War brought the U. S., and its peroration should certainly give aid & comfort to the New Dealers. "As I listened to that address [Roosevelt Inaugural] I was wishing I could live forever. Something new is beginning." Actually Within This Present is a pleasant, long-drawn-out story of a well-to-do and unremarkable Chicago family. Written...
...recent months the monthly Washingtonian, which was established about five years ago as an innocuous houseorgan for the Hotel Mayflower (named The Mayflower's Log), has been publishing less & less news of Society, more & more pungent comment on politics. Last fortnight The Washingtonian definitely abandoned its conservatism, came out as a magazine "which pokes pins into almost everything and everybody in town," began its pinsticking with a cover caricature of a button-nosed Herbert Hoover in red-white-&-blue...