Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five Annenberg sons-in-law to Paris to dicker with the Inquirer's socialite owners, Mme Eleanore Elverson Paternõtre and her sleek son Raymond, onetime Undersecretary of State for National Economy, member of the Chamber of Deputies and publisher of the Paris Petit Journal. Last week the deal went through. From his modest Manhattan offices, Purchaser Annenberg announced that he was taking over active control of the Inquirer at once, that he had no backers, that the Inquirer would continue a stanch Republican sheet...
...Banner today issued a warning against a man claiming to be a newspaper man who recently victimized that paper through bad checks. The man gave the name of Wilbur Pledge, it was said, and sometimes used the alias of Read. He claimed to have had experience with the Milwaukee Journal and to have seen service with the Canadian Army. The Banner asked that it be notified in case the man is found and described him as about 5 ft. 8 in. tall, weighing 140 lb.; ruddy complexion, short stubby hair...
Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association reported a cure for some kinds of facial neuralgia by "repositioning" the sufferer's jaws. Dr. James Bray Costen, assistant professor of otolaryngology at St. Louis' Washington University Medical School, discovered that when the back teeth are extracted or wear down the mandibular joints which hinge the lower jaw to the skull are pulled askew by the powerful muscles of the face, press abnormally upon facial nerves, cause facial neuralgia, headache, earache, burning tongue. Dr. Costen cures those pains by repositioning the jaws with caps over eroded molars, false...
...copies of The Social Ideals of the Churches and the Social Program of the Government (TIME, June 1). The Rev. Dr. Walter Wofford Tucker Duncan of Cleveland's Lakewood Methodist Episcopal Church, promptly pooh-poohed Dr. High as a New Deal hireling. Church Management, pastors' trade journal, criticized the Good Neighbor League for its silence regarding the New Deal's liquor, disarmament and college military training policies. The League moved its headquarters from Washington to Manhattan, where it began publicizing its activities over the names of not one but three laymen of three faiths...
...having called the President of the U. S. a liar. If Father Coughlin were statistically-minded, he could have buttressed his assertion with a list of the busiest U. S. banking houses in the first six months of this year, as compiled last week by the Wall Street Journal. The figures were less impressive than they used to be because security registration statements now reveal the actual amount underwritten by each house. Formerly, and even now with exempt offerings like municipals and railroads, the total amount of the issue was credited to each syndicate member...