Word: known
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...luncheon given by Mr. Mayer for the Buchmanites. Henry Ford sent a message, publicly endorsing Dr. Buchman and his work by name. Herbert Hoover furnished some words about the world's troubles, which headline writers construed as praise for MRA; thereupon Mr. Hoover let it be known that he neither endorsed MRA nor denied endorsing it. Read again was the message President Roosevelt sent a recent MRA meeting in Washington. Thirty-three U. S. Governors let their names be used as subscribing to a statement that "Moral Re-Armament is our most urgent need...
Last week Publisher Johnson gave a banquet for 300 businessmen at The Copley-Plaza, followed by such a promotion campaign as Boston newspaperdom has never known. Subway posters, newspaper advertisements, sound trucks, radio speakers and an airplane sign-trailer all shouted the news of the Transcript's "Newscope Edition." Two days later, when the Newscope Edition appeared, Beacon Street saw, instead of the Transcript's dowdy old front page, a bold, five-column layout, of which nearly two columns were pictures. The text frankly aped TIME'S news treatment...
Back of this curt announcement last week was a story that had kept Syracuse newspapermen in the jitters for months. Liquidating wherever they could, the tough businessmen who run the Hearst empire had let it be known that the profitable Journal and American could be bought. Six weeks ago Harvey Burrill's son, Louis, who succeeded him as publisher, could have had it for $750,000. While he dickered, a stranger went to Syracuse...
This week 27 Journal employes joined the Herald. About 500 were out of jobs. Though up-&-coming Sam Newhouse will be the power behind the rejuvenated Herald, he was reluctant to have his coup known. Over most of the weekend he was locked up in a Syracuse Hotel room but the only word to be got from the room was: "Mr. Newhouse is not here...
...London, an archeologist of the Royal Society of Abyssinia found an ancient, 20th-century thermos bottle. In the bottle was the Hopkins Manuscript. Since the damp climate of the British Isles rotted all books and papers, practically the only other records of the white man's glory known to the vigorous civilizations of the East were a rusty iron tablet (when deciphered, it read: Keep Off the Grass) and an oblong stone (it was believed to read: Peckham 3 miles...