Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mated cartoon career was launched with a series based on Kansas City topicalities. The film cost him 30? a foot, sold to three theatres. The average Mickey Mouse or Silly Symphony costs somewhere between $50 and $75 a foot; Snow White, over $200. Walt and a group of local cartoonists organized a $15,000 corporation in 1922, after spending six months making their first feature, Little Red Riding Hood. A New York distributor was found and out came Jack the Giant Killer, Town Musicians of Bremen, Goldilocks and three others, among them Alice in Cartoonland, which was a sort...
...word story was a bargain, would have been worth the 73?-a-word urgent cable rate used on the hottest news "breaks." Messrs. Mayell's and Alley's films of the power-diving Japanese planes will be something to see in the U. S. next week if local police departments do not censor them as too inflammatory...
With his chief source of income, the race track, padlocked, with big local advertisers now shunning the Star-Tribune as though it were a leper colony, Mr. O'Hara was now thoroughly pacified. He wrote a bitter valedictory in the last edition of the Star-Tribune before he put it in temporary receivership, charging that Governor Quinn and the Bulletin and Journal "joined in the conviction that an aggressive, progressive and exposing newspaper would be unhealthy for the prevailing system in Rhode Island." As final ignominy, Democratic Judge Jeremiah O'Connell stopped the Star-Tribune press, suppressed...
...betweens who sign up U. S. lecturers, arrange speaking dates, collect from local committees, are a tightly-knit, secretive, high-pressure group of Manhattan agents who have field representatives scattered throughout the U. S. They get 25% of lecture fees, 50% if they also supply railroad fare. Biggest of the four firms dominating the field is that of William Colston Leigh, burly, smartly-dressed Manhattan businessman who handles Carl Sandburg, Mrs. Roosevelt, some 37 other ranking literary figures. Oldest in the business is William ("Pop") B. Feakins, whose 35 authors, including leftists like John T. Flynn and rightists like Lawrence...
...profits on behalf of said bank." When his case went to trial in San Francisco's post-office building last summer (TIME, Sept. 6), no San Francisco newspaper cared to mention the fact. Last week, however, when Federal Judge Adolphus Frederick St. Sure finally handed down his decision, local papers could no longer ignore the matter. For mild Judge St. Sure found "that Herbert Fleishhacker violated his trust to the Anglo Bank and its stockholders...