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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knit in a worried frown, James Ramsay MacDonald, onetime Prime Minister (Jan.-Nov. 1924), proposed, last week, legal protection for the British public against the mind-moulding power of the British newspaper trusts. "An alarming situation is developing!" rapped Scot MacDonald, and many listened because he leads the second largest British parliamentary party: Labor. What had ruffled Laborite MacDonald, it shortly appeared, was the formation last week of a new news trust: "Northcliffe Newspapers...
Take, for example, the True Story magazine, kingpin of Bernarr Macfadden's confession group (True Romances, True Experiences, Dream World). Boasting of "the largest newsstand sale in the world," more than 2,000,000 a month, True Story sets the fashion in sex yarns. In May 1919, its first issue appeared with some sober items about Elsie Ferguson, Billie Burke, William S. Hart, Douglas Fair banks. But the meat of the magazine was confession fiction. Of these stories, six contained attempted seductions, three contained successful seductions. A successful one was described as follows: "His kisses intoxicated me. Everything seemed...
Elsie Pearl Truskett, 39, keeps 700 sheep and 500 cattle on a large farm just outside of Kansas City, Mo. Said she bitterly last week: "I have the largest following of any woman dealer in Kansas City. I am known to cattlemen all over the state, but am frozen out of business here...
...accordance with former practice the candidate in the first group polling the largest vote is President and the runner up is Vice President...
Federal Reserve Banks state in the February reports?Boston: "There was a further decline ... in the number of wage earners employed in identical manufacturing establishments in Massachusetts. The largest declines took place in the boot & shoe and the cotton goods industries, and were partly due to seasonal influences." Chicago: "Employment at industrial plants . . . showed an aggregate decline of 0.7%. . . . The comparatively small curtailment was the result of an upturn in the demand for iron & steel, which to a large extent counteracted the continued slowing-down in other industrial lines . . ."; San Francisco: In California, 781 firms employed 136,342 in December...