Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas City Chevrolet, Fisher Body and American Cigar plants, Montgomery Ward, Sears, Roebuck and National Bellas Hess mail order houses arranged to employ 2,500 more help...
...Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere, cares a hoot for "Civilization." The Daily Express (Beaverbrook) merely hung upon Legs a second screaming series of articles about "American desperadoes" (the first series was hung on the shooting of Alfred ["Jake"] Lingle in Chicago-TIME, June 16 et seq.). Meanwhile the Daily Mail (Rothermere) hired Edgar Wallace, No.1 British crime fictioneer, to write: "I have been out-Wallaced by recent factual happenings in the United States...
...Laurens and Benjamin Jean Joseph Constant, wrote a text book on watercolor painting which is quoted by Encyclopaedia Britannica as an authority, and became a fashionable portraitist. But painting is only one of the many things that Artist Lintott has done. He worked under Lord Northcliffe on the Daily Mail at its inception. He edited and illustrated a colored Women's Supplement of the London Times. He has been Librarian of the Royal Academy. In 1915 he helped raise a regiment of painters, the United Arts Force, offshoot of the Artists' Rifles of Kitchener's Army...
Viscount Northcliffe died insane but his Daily Mail was hitting at the 2,000,000 mark, so he was called a great man. He had the kind of brains often prized as first-class because it produces numerically big results. Though one of his technical peers (Lord Salisbury) called his magnum opus "a journal produced by office boys for office boys," Panegyrist Hamilton Fyfe dares repeat the slur, trusting in his faith that the big battalions are on the side...
Often likened to Napoleon, Northcliffe came to fancy the likeness. During his last few years he grew more & more dictatorial, capricious, megalomaniac. Suspicious, he fancied the Daily Mail office was becoming a "family party." He found "someone in the Cashier's Department is a relation of a man in another department, and there are many such cases. The office is a honeycomb of relations end relationships." Dissatisfied with his Advertising Department, he suddenly promoted the Daily Mail hall porter, one Glover, to be its head. He defended his action in a remarkable memorandum: "He [Northcliffe] had long consultations with...