Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dahlem, two years ago last week, the Gestapo (secret police) arrested Rev. Martin Niemoller, onetime U-boat commander, took him to Moabit prison. Pastor Niemoller was no Marxist, no pacifist, no libertarian. He had, indeed, been an early supporter of Naziism, and the .bourgeoisie and old army families who made up his congregation accepted, broadly, a Nazi view of "the Jewish problem." But for Martin Niemoller, Naziism could go just so far. When "German Christians" sought to Nazify the Evangelical Church, when the Reich sought to apply the "Leader Principle" to church government and the "Aryan paragraph" to the church...
...broadcasting business generally was comfortably in the black for 1938, a peep at who made how much revealed some disquieting statistics. Of the 660 stations in business, 419 made money, one broke even, and 240 were in the red. Of the luckless 240, 175 were "teakettle" stations doing a time-sales business of less than $25,000 a year, most of them low-wattage local stations. The 350 network-affiliated stations as a group had 77% of the industry's revenue...
...Fred Allen and the Bristol-Myers Town Hall Tonight company, NBC. Substitutes starting this week: George Jessel, For Men Only; What's My Name?, a guessing-game program that made its fame last year over MBS for Philip Morris...
...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...
...Charles Henry Fisher suddenly remarked: "If I had money I would invest it in Soviet bonds. They are paying 7%." The manager of Bellingham's Herald, angular old Frank Sefrit, turned fierce eyes on him and barked: "That's the most radical statement I have ever heard made in this club:" Tapping the educator on the chest, he added ominously: "Fisher, I'm agin you and I hope you know what that means." By last week it meant a national educational scandal and a first-class political battle in the State of Washington...