Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exceptional rubber trees had been grafted into trees that normally yielded but three or four pounds of rubber a year. After bud grafting the trees, by report, began to yield enormously, in some cases 100 pounds a year. At such report Arthur A. Judd, writer for the Chicago Journal of Commerce, scoffed: "The exchange president's report on the outcome of the experiment smacks of the fairy tale. Trees from which only three or four pounds of latex trickled previously were made to produce pails of the valuable liquid, reaching, in some instances, a total of more than...
...pollen grains may accidentally be present, but strawberries are not inhaled ; not even by French gourmets.* Pollen in plants corresponds to semen in animals, and is produced only at the time of bloom by the male organ in the flower. Would it not be of more importance to a journal like TIME, catering to people of some intelligence, to have such a simple, fundamental fact stated correctly, than to parade a lot of French kindergarten phrases, such as "c'est les fraises maudites" "tout Paris," "les dames Ameriquaines" etc.? I am keeping tab on you out of sheer love...
...many rather unlovely characters of history have been compared to Nero, but that President Coolidge should be spoken of in the same breath with the ill-famed Emperor seemed, until last week, almost incredible. The feat was performed, however, by Editor Basil M. Manly of People's Business, a journal which voices the views of LaFollette Progressives...
Doctors of Evanston, Highland Park, Ravinia and Lake Forest, Illinois communities along Lake Michigan shore north of Chicago, announced last week that they would charge double fees for calls they received after 7 p. m. Their decision excited comment in the Chicago Journal of Commerce, business newspaper...
...Southern dailies. The ownership was announced as having passed from the Clark Howells, father & son, of Atlanta, to Colonel Luke Lea* and Rogers Caldwell, two Nashville, Tenn., gentlemen who published there the Tennesseean and who lately reached out to Memphis, to acquire the potent Commercial Appeal and Evening Journal. Having the Constitution owned by outsiders did not appeal strongly to Atlantans, than whom no people of the South are more filled with "booster spirit" (civic pride). But the news was mitigated by a notice that the Clark Howells, Sr. & Jr., would continue as publisher-editor and business manager respectively. This...