Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlanta, Ga., contrary to his custom, Mayor Walker arrived six hours ahead of schedule. But Robert Tyre Jones Jr., golfer-lawyer, and Major John Sanford Cohen, editor of the Atlanta Journal, went to the station to arouse the Mayor from his green-pajama sleep. He visited the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, made lofty speeches and pleased his guests so well that the powerful Atlanta Constitution said in an editorial next day: "Tammany as an organization may have its detractors, but the men of Tammany are Democrats of the old Jeffersonian and Jacksonian schools. They are not everlastingly chasing after...
Curtis Publications (Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman, Ladies' Home Journal, New York Evening Post, Philadelphia Public Ledger...
...publisher of the Ladies' Home Journal, Saturday Evening Post, etc., etc.) uses pretty-girl covers for his magazines. Such covers are usually inspired by pretty models. Such a model is Miss Peggy Burns of Philadelphia, Pa., who last week on her 21st birthday inherited $500,000 from her grandfather. Said she : "I am not going to quit work. I like my work." One of her first acts after receiving the inheritance was to collect $100 from an artist for posing for the cover of the current Ladies' Home Journal...
Great banks have been considering reducing wages. Suggesting in the current issue of the American Bankers Association Journal that banks cut interest rates on deposits, President Charles E. Mitchell of the National City Bank of New York (greatest bank in the U. S.; deposits: $1,275,041,000) writes: "While it is unpleasant to think of disturbing relations with depositors, it is even more so to think of reducing the pay of the bank staffs...
...that Philadelphian who had performed the most noteworthy service to the community of which his city is the centre, had no idea to whom it would be given. Most of them were distinguished Philadelphians, including the giver of the prize, Edward W. Bok, onetime editor of the Ladies Home Journal; a few looked with hope and excitement at the ivory casket, which stood on the speaker's stand, containing a gold medal, a scroll and a check for $10,000. Pierre Monteux conducted the Philadelphian orchestra in the absence of its regular leader, Leopold Stokowski, a onetime winner...