Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...journal which was thus defended is like no other paper on earth. It is a peach and saffron tabloid full of hand-me-down line drawings and photographs of celebrated sundowners, sentimental verse, advertisements of rabbits' feet and "surprise novelties." personalities and good advice. Founded last winter as a quarterly, the Hobo News was soon converted to a monthly. It is distributed in Manhattan by its editors, elsewhere by itinerants at 5? a copy— 10? "if we can get it." Current edition: 50,000 copies. In an effort to avoid just such an embarrassing situation as Editor Benson...
Obviously there is nothing in this article that could annoy readers of the "Nation" since it is written as their editors demand all articles for publication in that biased, one-sided journal to be written. Filled as it is with innuendoes slurs, attacks on Overseers and the like, Mr. Lamb's little excursion into fancy is such as will delight those who are averse to looking into a simple administrative problem, simply and honestly...
...American Medical Association, revealed why his voice has been silent in radio, lecture hall and conference room for almost a month. Following a severe cold Dr. Fishbein had developed paralysis of one side of his face. Wrote he in his imitation Pepys' Diary in the A. M. A. Journal: "It seems strange to see one side of the countenance so cold and fishy. Belike it would be well to save this appearance to bestow upon the quacks." Specialists assured Dr. Fishbein that ''sooner or later" he will recover...
...Upon the Journal which Dr. Fishbein edits the A. M. A. depends for practically every dollar of its operating expenses. The Journal last year, Dr. Fishbein last week reported, earned $1,547,218. Operating expenses: $909,418. Net profit: $637,800. Cost of running the A. M. A.: $411,029. Other expenses, other income balanced to make a net income to the A. M. A. of $113,112 for last year. Adding this to accumulations of past years made a total reserve of $2,260,392 and total assets (including property...
...staid columns of the Chicago Journal of Commerce last week appeared a matter-of-fact little item reporting the formation and election of officers of an organization called the Grand Knights of the Hose. Its status was apparently that of a fun division of the big, serious-minded National Association of Petroleum Retailers, trade body for the nation's filling stations. Spontaneously organized...