Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolutionary change which the Nazi State is about to make-the fundamental change of rewriting German law "so as to give the German people a new conception of property rights." While the text of Adolf Hitler's coming new Law of Property is a state secret, the journal German Common & Economic Law last week carried official predictions that soon in German law "there will be no need and no room for abstract rights of property." As an example of how this is going to work out, anxious German property owners were advised last week to see a new Nazi...
...were delving into affairs of the local "kingdom." In his Harlem and Kingston, N. Y. headquarters small, brown Father Divine, despite his claim that he is not responsible for his out-of-town followers, was plainly worried - all because able Reporter Johnston Davis ("Jack") Kerkhoff of the New York Journal had dug up a lurid story about the brown "God's" chief West Coast "angel," broken it to the G-men and was playing it for all it was worth in his Hearstpaper. The U. S. Attorney in Los Angeles last week issued a warrant for the arrest...
...this they obligingly insert anything the buyer wishes to have appear. Thus the Philadelphia Inquirer is selling 200,000 volumes a week of the Standard American Encyclopedia whose A volume has a complimentary column-and-one-half biography of Publisher Moses Louis ("Moe") Annenberg. Hearst's New York Journal, selling the same encyclopedia, has in its volumes no word of Mr. Annenberg or his career, but it has got a nice item devoted to the word "neotrist,"† which they hired Lexicographer Charles Earle Funk to coin for them to describe a typical Journal reader. Mr. Annenberg...
Meantime, the Dearborn individualist last week decided to withdraw further into his vast fortress of independence. The Akron Beacon Journal revealed that Ford Motor Co. had ordered $1,000,000 worth of tire-making machinery for a new Ford tire plant at the River Rouge works outside Detroit. Moreover, said the Beacon Journal, that order was only "one of many...
...more than 50% excess patients. General hospitals complain of their empty beds, which last year totaled 35.7% of capacity. Some of these vacancies constitute a kind of insurance against over-crowding during epidemics, fires, flood, earthquakes. But many, argued one contributor to last week's A. M. A. Journal, are due to a zest to build, although every bed in a U. S. hospital represents a cost of from $5,000 to $7,500 in space and equipment. Currently about 600 new hospitals are being built or planned. Proposed expenditures...