Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blanks, was an entity known as the Class of 1940. Its 300,000 members, according to a survey made at University of Illinois, are better nourished and better developed than their predecessors, 87% of them being in "good-to-excellent physical shape." Its New England members, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, are the tallest group of human beings in the world, 178.03 centimeters (circa 5 ft. 10 in.). First official act of the Class of 1940 as it gathered in its new colleges was to hear addresses of welcome and counsel from its new presidents. Newsworthy...
...long step forward if for no other reason than it is a getting down to realities," pontificated the Wall Street Journal last week on the subject of the franc's devaluation and the promise of international monetary stabilization. Wall Street's more practical reaction to the most significant financial news of the year was to be found on stock-market tape, where its collective opinion is always best expressed. Share prices turned firmly if unspectacularly upward...
...Cornell-educated George J. Hecht, who wanted to be a publisher and was fond of children, launched a monthly magazine "to educate parents" which he named Children, The Magazine for Parents. Sanguine Mr. Hecht hoped that in time 100,000 U. S. parents would subscribe to his journal of tips, stories, articles on child health, psychology, care. This week the tenth anniversary number of Children, The Magazine for Parents, now called simply Parents' Magazine, went to 370,000 readers. Franklin Roosevelt sent congratulations. Publisher Hecht was prepared to guarantee his advertisers that by next year Parents' Magazine would...
...publicist, and Chemist Paul Nicholas Leech, director of the A. M. A.'s chemical laboratories. Chemist Leech whipped off a telegram to President Edward Bartow of the American Chemical Society, and rushed to Pittsburgh to protest in person. The Leech telegram: "Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, and I join in protest to the American Chemical Society against the use of its agency in aiding the premature and unethical exploitation of this proprietary. . . . May we suggest that proper officials remove [Dr. Seydel's speech] from program because of unwarranted and harmful publicity...
...Fishbein immediately reinforced this by giving all news agencies copies of a vigorous editorial which he intended to publish in the next issue of the A. M. A. Journal, The editorial...