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Last week America announced a "Bias Contest," with Father Toomey among others in charge, in which $50 in prizes will be awarded to readers culling and commenting upon the worst examples of anti-Catholic bias in the press during March. Father Toomey's observations on the scope of the contest: "Something may not seem to be anti-Catholic at all until one bestows thought upon it. For example, consider the Ladies' Home Joitrnal's birth control propaganda. . . . The bias may be achieved by playing up the anti-Catholic side, playing down the Catholic side ... or by means...
...unusual glut of expensive motion pictures thrust forth by Hollywood in recent weeks,* cinemaudiences probably have the California tax collector to thank. For all film, raw or exposed, on Hollywood shelves when the assessors make their annual visits on March's first Monday, the studios are taxed. The way to beat the tax is to empty the shelves. When the assessors made their rounds this week, most cupboards were bare. But at luckless Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the vast amount of film necessary for Norma Shearer's Marie Antoinette was still in stock, the picture only half completed...
Forty-eight years ago March 1, Isaac Kauffman Funk and Adam Willis Wagnalls, both Lutheran pastors, brought out the Literary Digest, "a repository of contemporaneous thought and research as presented in the periodical literature of the world." Such a review, thought Partners Funk & Wagnalls, would be especially handy for theologians and educators. The Literary Digest amended its formula in 1905 to include newspaper comment on news more mundane than "thought and research." In ten years its circulation stepped...
...rayon industry last year (TIME, Nov. 29). Said President Arthur Besse of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers : "The wool textile industry as a whole does not desire or see the need for any such trade practice conference. . . .' F. T. C. retorted that its conference would begin on March...
...Last week, too, the biggest U. S. industry revealed that it would for the first time appropriate a week for its special pleading: in Manhattan President Alvan Macauley of the Automobile Manufacturers Association announced that all U. S. motorcar makers would join in spending $1,250,000 to make March 5-12 "National Used Car Exchange Week...