Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Abraham Lincoln was but faintly famed as a newspaperman. Yet his writings for the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, 111. , were the nursery rhymes from which developed the majestic cadences of the Gettysburg Address. The newspaper with this notable tradition, now named the Illinois State Journal, has just passed to the control of Col. Ira Clifton Copley. One newspaper acquisition at a time is normally enough for growing publishers. Not so Col. Copley. He stretched half across a continent and added almost simultaneously the San Diego Union and Tribune to his pack* of papers...
White elephants are a symbol for useless beauty, for that which is at the same time precious and without value. In the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, last week, the Central Furniture Co. of Louisville inserted a full-page advertisement of a sale. Around the edge of the page, in the corners of the page, through the middle of the page, were pictures of elephants, elephants, elephants, silhouetted in white against a black background. In all there were 21 small white elephants, one large white elephant. Under each small frisky pachyderm was noted some item included in the sale, as "Jumbo...
...purpose of the journal is best set forth in the following words of the editors...
...believe that New England, like the other sections of our country, has had in the past a well-defined provincial culture, and has made a distinctive contribution to American life, character and civilization. A quarterly journal, including within its scope the literary, social and economic history of New England, and the westward expansion of New England people, should first, meet a recognized need of scholars of history and literature, and, second, the rising generation of scholars in a field that needs cultivation. In the study of American literature many large problems and topics must wait for final treatment until...
...Squire Ames and Doctor Ames," S. E. Morison: "A Journal of Village Life in Vermont in 1848." Edited by W. O. Clough: "The Genesis of Godey's 'Lady's Book'," Lawrence Martin: "A Ballad on the Northwest Fur Trade." F. W. Howay: Memoranda and Documents:: "Count Caleb Cushing," S. K. Hornbeck: "Milices du Newhampshire...