Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excess of 3,000,000- 157,456,000 for the year-which is more copies than any other magazine ever sold in any year anywhere. During the first ten months of the year, the man who had taken over the Post when it was a little paste-up literary journal* and by 1912 made it the biggest general magazine on earth had been in complete retirement. For the last two months he had been dead. The evidence therefore indicated that his professional heirs had done well...
George Horace Lorimer was editor of the Saturday Evening Post from 1899 to Dec. 31, 1936. He was a man who looked like a bulldog and he ran the Post from stem to stern, finally becoming president of the whole Curtis group (Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman) when the late Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis resigned in 1932. Last week's year-end board meeting seemed strange without Mr. Lorimer. It brought together at a dramatic moment the men (it took more than one man to succeed George Horace Lorimer) who twelve months ago took charge...
...University of Pennsylvania, persuaded Samuel Goldwyn to tear up his contract, which had over three years to run, so that he could return to the magazine he left six years ago. Two other associate editors taken on in 1937 are Stuart Rose, Ladies' Home Journal fiction editor who does not take office until February, and Joseph St. George Bryan III, a parsimonious Virginian who edits the "Post Scripts" page and contributed one of the smartest Post biographies of the year, 0. 0. Mclntyre's. Another Junior member of the staff is Richard Thruelsen, a onetime Army flyer...
EUROPEAN TRAVEL JOURNAL - Lewis Henry Morgan-Rochester Historical So- ciety...
...months of depression and sugar-men now fear that this year's consumption will not equal even the original 1937 quota. They were distinctly irked, therefore, when Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace last week set a new 1938 quota of 6,861,000 tons. Said the Wall Street Journal: "In the opinion of the trade a quota of 6,861,000 tons is too large to permit any sustained recovery in prices from their present low levels." Prices demonstrated that the opinion of the trade was right. Raw sugar quotations in Manhattan (including .9? duty) sagged...