Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Subscriber Hewes not look down too long a nose at advertising matter. The cash register works as hard for readers as for publishers because few and far between are the periodicals where the price readers pay covers the cost of the editorial matter they buy. The reason U. S. magazines and newspapers are by-and-large the best in the world is that U. S. businessmen spend enough money on advertising to pay a good part of the expense of publishing the quality of magazine to which the U. S. public is accustomed...
...able to place an additional member in the court for each one over 70-the total would have been six-nevertheless, when the smoke of battle cleared away, Mr. Roosevelt's formal defeat had been accompanied by the retirement of arch-conservative Mr. Justice Van Devanter. And no matter how much his former Ku Klux Klan membership belies any innate liberalism, Mr. Justice Black, who was given the vacant chair, is a bona fide New Dealer and may be expected to vote with the liberal wing, as he did this week. Thus in the 1937-38 term, the liberals...
...year ago Germany and Japan entered into a notably loose treaty against the Comintern, or international federation of Communist Parties, which promotes the "World Revolution of the World Proletariat" (TIME, Nov. 30). This treaty is carefully drawn so that technically it is not directed against Russia, and for that matter Russia is not technically behind the Comintern-these two transparent subterfuges nicely balancing each other. Last week in Rome, while Moscow was celebrating Bolshevism's 20th birthday as a State (see above), a peculiar ceremony was performed. It did not suit II Duce simply to bring Italy into...
Prall, the subtle theorist of esthetic problems, is evidently irritated beyond endurance by Sorokin's treatment. "In fact," Prall cries out, "Professor Sorokin rejects all art; the term means to him only 'subject matter' ". According to Prall, it would be absurd to accept Professor Sorokin's terms, and "as a guide to the fluctuations (of art) through the centuries a blind man is no help...
...turns from these articles with a feeling of futility, and a sense of doubt as to the wisdom of the editors in giving so much space to this matter. For either these men are right, in which case, why not leave Sorokin to a brief review, or they are wrong, in which case their views ought not to be presented at such length...