Word: known
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...high on the White House's list of 1940 prospects. Calling him for duty at Washington would be one way of building him up nationally. Last week, with a band and a trainload of Missourians, Governor Stark set off on a Western tour which will make him better known...
Just then, Paraguay and Bolivia renewed their brawl over the tropical swamp known as the Chaco. In the spirit of the hour both Senate and House hastily authorized President Roosevelt to place an embargo on shipments of arms to both sides in the minor squabble. The League of Nations joined the U. S. in this first attempt to discourage a war by refusing to sell lethal weapons to both combatants. The arms embargo did not stop the fighting...
Among famed writers of scientifiction are Edgar Rice Burroughs, Eric Temple Bell (penname: John Taine), Abraham Merritt, editor of the American Weekly, and onetime Wisconsin State Senator Roger Sherman Hoar (penname: Ralph Milne Farley). Pay is 1? to 4? a word. Many a well-known author who commands higher rates in slick-paper magazines writes these stories for fun. But writers as well as readers take their predictions seriously. Ray Cummings, a veteran pseudo-fictioneer who once was Thomas Edison's secretary, claims to have originated in his stories the word Newscaster and the phrase The World of Tomorrow...
...Representing that advertising increases selling costs and therefore raises prices. Mr. Falk disputes this on several counts: a) "It is a well-known fact that advertising is the cheapest form of selling effort"; b) the total cost of advertising in the U. S. ($1,500,000,000 a year) is less than 2% of the total income earned and spent in the country; c) prices of widely advertised products (e.g., autos, radios) have steadily declined as advertising made mass-production economies possible...
...Bellingham (pop. 30,823), a turbulent town long torn by private feuds and political catfights, Newspaperman Sefrit is known as "Little Hearst." Charles Fisher, an educational progressive, for 16 years has been president of Western Washington College of Education at Bellingham, which he made one of the most esteemed teachers' colleges in the U. S. To kick Fisher out of his job became Sefrit's ambition. With other enemies of Fisher he formed a committee, which filed charges that the college seldom displayed the U. S. flag on the campus, had invited subversive speakers to talk...