Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...column. One wishes that one might believe the World's Greatest Newspaper to have its tongue in its cheek, to be heaping coals of fire on those colleges and universities who live and die by their virgin goals lines. Such an attitude would be possible with almost any other journal in these United States--excepting the Chicago Tribune. They are not given to sardonics, these western magogs. They are sorry maliciously and gloatingly sorry...
Said Mrs. McCormick in an interview published in Ladies Home Journal last March: "I thought she [Alice] was a harum scarum. She thought I was a prig. She had burst upon the world as Princess Alice. I was a hardworking young woman in my father's office at the Senate. . . .-ED. Not Charles...
...journal followed the article with a letter to Artist Jerdano-witsch, requesting a short biography, a picture. Novelist Smith obliged. He let his beard grow Conrad length, posed before the camera with tortured brow, eyes popping with Muscovite anguish, his esthetically agonized face pressed against gentle fingers. He explained he was born in Moscow, came to the U. S. at the age of 10 with his parents, settled in Chicago, suffered from tuberculosis, sought health in the South Sea Islands, retreated into Southern California...
...Federal Reserve Board announced that it was fixing 3½% as the Chicago district's rediscount rate. Chicago bank directors growled, refused to "talk for publication." Said Governor Crissinger: "The Federal Reserve Board established the rate of 3½% for sound reasons. That is all there is to it." The Chicago Journal of Commerce warned: ". . . It would be much easier than eastern bankers know to make a political issue of the Federal Reserve System. . . . Difficult would be the defense of it if an issue were made...
...Reserve Banks had been, for a relatively long time, 4%. Then in July when chiefs of the English, French and German central banks of issue visited with Governor Benjamin Strong of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, (TIME, July 11), men came from Manhattan, according to the Chicago Journal of Commerce, asking that Governor James B. McDougal of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank initiate a movement (which the other banks might ostensibly follow), to reduce the general 4% rate to 3½%. If money could be borrowed cheaply in the U. S., it could be loaned with profit abroad...