Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years off the Cincinnati Post, was made New York manager of the brand new Scripps' Publishers' Press Association at $50 a week (which he agreed to plough back for stock), his first appointee was Bill Hawkins, out of Springfield, Mo. by way of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Next year reorganization carried them into the United Press together. There for 13 years they perfectly complemented each other. UP's President Howard might be in London getting the historic 1916 "knockout" interview from David Lloyd George, or in Brest getting the equally historic false Armistice report from Admiral Wilson...
...lavished in its first eight months, has yet had any profits to share with the Brothers Pulitzer, the news has not been made public. Its circulation, never far over 400,000, has lately remained about 100,000 above the arch-conservative Sun, about 200,000 below the rowdy Journal. Publisher Howard prefers to measure the World-Telegram's progress in the past five years in terms of public service rather than circulation or profit, points out that the paper has made a place for itself in the nation's largest and most competitive community. This fact few could...
...Lord! Enough of this. My eyes do trouble me exceedingly. I fear I must leave my journal until tomorrow...
...large part of the Bawl Street Journal was devoted to fabulous Washington doings. After five hours of questioning Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau had admitted investing all available Government funds in common stocks while the Administration boosted business at every turn. "Wrecksford" Tugwell had suggested selling short and continuing present policies but had been overruled...
Using its constitutional right to fix standards of weight & measure, Congress changed the year from 365 days to 1,000, thus dispensing with elections for a long time. The tax year, however, was reduced to 200 days. Gaily oblivious to its other stories on the Treasury, the Bawl Street Journal also declared that Secretary Morgenthau hoped to balance the budget by having the Government pay a 50% income tax on its own income. "Certainly a 50% increase in income will silence all our critics," Mr. Morgenthau was reported as saying. "True, there may be loopholes where an unscrupulous Government might...