Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Birdie Taylor took complete charge of the Jimplecute. In 1926 the paper was sold. The new owners immediately changed its name from Jimplecute to plain Journal. "Miss Birdie" carried on the job printing business, still runs it at 76. Last year the Journal changed from a daily to a semiweekly. Its 2,000 readers supposed that like almost everything else in their quiet, moss-grown city, the Journal would now drowse off to sleep...
Noted without comment last week by the New York Journal of Commerce was the fact that a third great group of prices in its commodity index had pushed above the average level prevailing in the boom years 1927-29. Building materials and iron and steel products have been in new high ground for some time. To these conspicuous markers on the highway to inflation were added non-ferrous metals (lead, zinc, copper, tin, etc.), which as a group have risen 46% since the commodity boom got underway last autumn...
...wields these tools brilliantly is Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac of Cambridge University, who won a Nobel Prize in 1933 for his powerful contributions to atomic theory and who is one of the half-dozen greatest mathematical logicians in the world. In the U. S. last week arrived the British journal Nature with an article by Dr. Dirac which he began as follows...
...should make over to me the Examiner-with enough money to carry out my schemes. ... It would be well to make the paper as far as possible original. . . . To imitate only some such leading journal as the New York World which is undoubtedly the best paper of that class to which the Examiner belongs -that class which appeals to the people and which depends for its success upon enterprise, energy and a certain startling originality and not upon the wisdom of its political opinions or the lofty style of its editorials. . . Illustrations attract the eye and stimulate the imagination...
Other newspapers in which F. P. A." has conducted a column go back to the Chicago Journal of 1903. Next F. P. A. column appeared in the now long-dead New York Mail following year. Ten years later, F. P. A. was working for Ogden Reid. In the War, F. P. A. was a captain in the Intelligence Service, wrote a column, The Listening Post, in the A. E. F. newspaper, The Stars & Stripes. In his years of column-conducting, F. P. A. has been noted, like Chicago's late Bert Leston Taylor ("B. L. T.") as much...