Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than six nominations are made, there will be a primary election next Tuesday, with a run-off for the six highest on Thursday, March 23. If less than six are named by petition, a single election will be held on the latter date...
...close-knit group of generally profitable newspapers: the six on the Pacific Coast. The Los Angeles Herald & Express makes $1,000,000 a year, the Examiner $500.000. The San Francisco Examiner is another $1,000,000 paper. The Call-Bulletin and Oakland's Post-Enquirer earn far less, but stand to get a boost from the fair this year. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, once the weak sister of the Coast, has been pulling out of the red under Roosevelt Son-in-Law John Boettiger, will make enough in 1939 to offset 1938's losses. These papers will probably...
...Great Hearst. Hearst's career spanned exactly half a century, and more than any other career in history it proved the power and privileges of a free press. No other press lord ever wielded his power with less sense of responsibility; no other press ever matched the Hearst press for flamboyance, perversity and incitement of mass hysteria. Hearst never believed in anything much, not even Hearst, and his appeal was not to men's minds but to those infantile emotions which he never conquered in himself: arrogance, hatred, frustration, fear. But while Hearst dragged his readers vicariously through...
...Spots Pay Less...
...restaurants selling liquor, the average wage in the Square is $8, with some places paying less than this amount. In Boston, girls not infrequently work for nothing in such establishments and live exclusively on tips...