Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this money was borrowed not for the use of the borrower. Hearst Magazines, but to re-lend upstream to American Newspapers. Inc. The rest of the money borrowed from Halsey, Stuart was applied as a down payment on a Manhattan building owned by Hearst's New York Evening Journal-but leased by Hearst Magazines. Full price for the building is $3,253,000, which is $500,000 more than the appraised value. This inflated price is justified on the ground that Hearst Magazines will thus be relieved of a burdensome lease. One of the things that make the lease...
...latest move in the simplification program is to lump the same Hearst Consolidated properties, with one exception-the profitable New York Evening Journal-in a wholly-owned subsidiary called Hearst Publications, Inc., which now proposes to offer $22,500,000 worth of bonds to the public. Nearly all the proceeds will be used to pay off bank loans and refund old bond issues, many carrying William Randolph Hearst's personal guarantee...
From the Duke University presses last week appeared Vol. 1, No. 1 of the Journal of Parapsychology, first publication in this field ever sponsored by a reputable university. Well-printed, with a plain, pleasing cover in blue on rag paper, the journal will appear quarterly. Annual subscription: $3. Editors are Dr. Rhine and famed, contentious old Psychologist William McDougall, who raised the eyebrows of orthodox science by dabbling in parapsychology even before the Rhine experiments at Duke got under...
...Rhine evidence for extrasensory perception was greeted with widespread skepticism and objections in academic psychological circles. One effect, however, was to start experimenters elsewhere to work trying to duplicate or disprove the Rhine results. It was to accommodate reports of this growing body of research that the Journal of Parapsychology was set on foot...
...Barnet Hodes has made the corporation counsel's office the city's law office in fact as well as in name. Since 1933 six separate law offices representing the city have been combined, sorely needed records kept where records never existed before. Says the Illinois Bar Journal of busy Mr. Hodes' activities: "Probably nothing more dramatic in the field of public law has taken place in recent years than this 'renovation.' " Says Barnet Hodes: "Sure, I'm a politician. I'm here because...