Word: journals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army & Navy Journal opined that President Roosevelt's reason for sending the Fleet to the Pacific six weeks ahead of schedule was to free Russia's (as well as Britain's) hands for action in Europe. Excerpt: "Russia, knowing that Japan would be compelled to consider an American interruption of her communications with the Asiatic mainland, can now envisage a connection with [Britain & France] which she was indisposed to make so long as Siberia was open to attack." >President Roy A. Cheney of the Underwear Institute announced in Philadelphia: "The underwear industry is prepared and in line...
...cover an anticipated two years' work. To its basic problem the project has not yet found all the answers. But it has turned up a mass of "byproduct" information about listener habits, types, preferences. So interesting were some of these by-product findings that The Journal of Applied Psychology delayed publication of its February issue until last month, built an all-radio issue around them...
Tall, dashing John Anderson (Journal & American) is Broadway's supreme critic of bad plays, with a great gift for wise cracking down on them. ("[Jeremiah] may be entered ... as prophet and loss"; "Twenty years is a long time, except be tween wars.") Anderson was No. 1 Hellza-poppin-hater. Though murderous with fanciness and fake, he is sometimes too clever and cynical at the expense of a serious play...
...Maxwell Perkins of Scribner's the outline of three Philo Vance detective stories. As S. S. Van Dine, Wright wrote serialized best-sellers for a decade, so obscured his earlier reputation that when his identity was revealed (by Bruce Gould, now co-editor of The Ladies' Home Journal) few people except literati remembered who Willard Huntington Wright...
...Hungary, 4,750 in Chile, it has made its biggest sensation outside the U. S. in Nazi Germany, which has bought 134,000 copies. Nazi highbrows, calling it irresistible, found it an attack on "plundering mercantile Yankee capitalism" and on democracy. Said Das Innere Reich, leading Nazi literary journal, "We see the fall and death of the old aristocrats, the rise of the parvenus, the uncultured, and the Negroes, hitherto wisely controlled." Her German publishers send Margaret Mitchell regular royalty statements but pay her no cash...