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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, the list of Franklin Roosevelt's forthcoming literary works had begun to assume the proportions of Dr. Eliot's five-foot shelf. Announced last summer were the President's State Papers, edited by Judge Samuel Rosenman, in five volumes. Three weeks ago, the President announced sale of the prefaces to the Papers to Liberty Magazine, of notes on the Papers to United Feature Syndicate. Last week, it developed that Liberty was also going to publish stenographic transcriptions of Presidential press conferences, also included in the State Papers. What total price the President received...
...President had announced his intention of selling his radio fireside chats to an advertising sponsor, it could scarcely have caused more outraged bowlings than his spring publication list. The New York Herald Tribune found it "so . . . steep a descent for a President as to give the whole nation pause." In the House, Michigan's Republican Clare E. Hoffman accused the President of "using his ... office as his advertising agency," and retaining a monopoly. Circulated in Washington was the story that when offered a fat contract for a series of daily broadcasts. John Nance Garner had replied: "What Jack Garner...
...college by mounting War posters for the Widener Library and guiding visitors around the Yard, is currently considered Harvard's most outstanding quarter-miler, is on the board of The Guardian (new undergraduate magazine), is a member of the Dramatic Club and is on the Dean's List (high-standing students). In spite of the fact that he broke his arm when he was five and broke his back when he was 14, hence has to do special exercises before running, experts expect Jim Lightbody Jr. to equal the feats of his famed father...
Until about 1932 best-seller lists were usually compiled from wholesalers' reports, the statements of leading booksellers and the hunches of the lists' compilers. Because booksellers buy books in advance, and because the fact that a book is a best-seller is its best advertisement, most such lists tended to be catalogues of books for which large sales were hoped, rather than lists of those which actually sold most widely. Result was that "the six bestsellers" of one list were not infrequently missing from another...
Tied for first in the local Class A league, the malletmen list West Point as their only other college victim. Next week the team will invade the West, facing army teams in Cincinnati and Cleveland, and the Cornell trio at Chicago on Saturday, March...