Word: journals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would have edited one of the most influential sheets in the U. S. He would have edited a sheet read religiously by the tightlipped, tightmouthed New England bourgeoisie, by politicians, statesmen, presidents. He would have lifted from his presses each evening the first wet copy of a lankcolumned, pinheadlined journal, which, even in the moment of its moist birth seemed austere enough to belong in the files of a Boston library; where, when he actually became editor, 30-year-old copies reposed as valuable records...
When William Hearst came to Manhattan where, with money borrowed from his mother,* he acquired another jaundiced journal. He was to cure it of financial jaundice and infect it with another ocherous bug. It was the yellow wrappings of the "funnies" in this newspaper from which grew the household epithet "yellow journalism...
This newspaper was called the Morning Journal. Later Mr. Hearst rechristened it the New York American. Reverting to title he brought out a little sister of the evening (the Evening Journal). These two papers were the steppingstones in Mr. Hearst's climb to red ink pinnacles of domination in the sensational newspaper field...
...Federal Reserve Banks of St. Louis, Boston and New York each last week reduced its re-discount rate from 4% to 3 1/2% and by their action proved the angry prediction of the Chicago Journal of Commerce that such would be the sequence of results from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's similar reduction the week before...
According to the Journal of Commerce those re-discount reductions were the result of the recent visit with Governor Benjamin Strong (the New York Federal Reserve Bank) of Governor Montagu Norman (the Bank of England) Deputy Governor Charles Rist (the Bank of France)' and Dr. Hjalmar Schact (head of the German Reichsbank) (TIME, July 11). Those visitors went with Governor Strong to Washington for a conference with members of the Federal Reserve Board...