Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four big papers are for Roosevelt, five against him. Latest and weightiest New York convert to the New Deal is the august Times (circulation: 450,000). True to the Independent Democracy of his late father-in-law, Adolph Ochs, self-effacing young Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger swung his venerable journal to the Democracy one day last month (TIME, Oct. 12), promptly reasserted its independence by sharply criticizing Franklin Roosevelt on two succes sive days, continuing to ask him such embarrassing questions as what he intends to do about reviving...
...September 30, Herbert Roslyn ("Bud") Ekins of the Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram, Dorothy Kilgallen of Hearst's New York Journal and Leo Kieran of the New York Times set off on the Hindenburg to race around the world on commercial airlines as a publicity stunt for their respective papers. Bad planning on the part of the Journal and Times, plus a couple of offside jumps by Reporter Ekins, soon put that World- Telegram man far in the lead. This week he completed the world trip in 18 days...
That ultraviolet rays kill small organisms like bacteria and algae is one of those things which was discovered in the laboratory as a fact of pure science and is now being adapted to practical applications. Last week an article in the Electric Journal, abstracted in the Journal of the Franklin Institute, showed that ultraviolet "bacteria guns" are finding their way into industry...
Nevertheless, the drive for advertising continued under the leadership of Maurice L. Farrell, senior partner of F. S. Smithers & Co. and chairman of the Exchange's committee on public relations. An old-time newshawk who was once managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, Broker Farrell last week won a heroic victory. For the first time in 144 years, except for a brief period during the War when it unbent as a patriotic duty to participate in prompting the sale of Liberty Bonds, the New York Stock Exchange published paid advertisements...
Because roundworms and earthworms look alike, from time immemorial the lethal effects of roundworm vermicides have first been tried on earthworms before application to humans. Only last spring Pharmacologist Glenn Llewellyn Jenkins of the University of Maryland, chemist and assiduous inventor of synthetic drugs, published an article in the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association on "Rational Use of the Earthworm for the Evaluation of Vermicides." This profoundly agitated Pharmacologist Paul Dudley Lamson of Vanderbilt University, caused him to write a vigorous rebuttal which Science published last week. Snapped Professor Lamson: "The human Ascaris [roundworm] is a parasitic animal living...