Word: mcclure
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word. At $210,000, the 14,000 words of The Life of Our Lord are worth $15 each, highest price ever paid for a newspaper syndicate feature. Highest price per word hitherto has been the $3,000 weekly that Will Rogers gets for his small daily column. The McClure Syndicate paid Calvin Coolidge $2 a word for 200 words a day. Arthur Brisbane gets $250,000 a year but not more than 25? a word. President Roosevelt has not written for newspapers since his election. If he did, he could probably ask and get $15 a word...
...that epoch preceding and overlapping the Roosevelt regime, the eyes of a million Americans would have been straining impatiently for the week's issue of McClure's or Munsey's to soak up eagerly the revelations of Lincoln Steffens on this latest evidence of the decay of the 'System,' as he had named it. Following his hurried, jumpy, journalistic style through its thorough-going exploration of the intricacies and brazen sin of municipal graft. Steffens's audience would read avidly to the last word, throw up its hands in horror at the wickedness of the Big City, make...
...Yonkers, N. Y., a few days after completing a term as president of the American Bankers Association. Born in Galesburg, Ill., graduated from Knox College (1892), he went to Harvard for graduate study, then into newspaper work, became editor of the Galesburg Evening Mail, later joined the staff of McClure's to write on finance and economics...
...LaFrentere, C. H. Lawrence, W. H. Ledgard, T. T. McClure, J. C. McNamara, J. C. McNaughton, G. E. Mereet, R. C. Middlebrook, H. P. Miller, F. R. Moscley, W. R. Nelson, E. R. Prains, J. C. Procter, W. W. Prout, Timothy Putnam, W. C. Quinby, W. O. Randall, C. W. Richardson, O. E. Rodgers, S. T. Rodgers, J. G. Regers, Theodere, Theodore Rooserved, III, B. Y. Ryan...
Various other Washington letters have come and gone. Some were frankly "tipster services," flashing advice to clients to invest this way or that on the basis of legislative acts or guesses. Others are simply news letters on a smaller scale than the big three. McClure Newspaper Syndicate issues a confidential collection of slangy jottings called "The National Whirligig-News Behind the News" by Reporter Paul Mallon. W. F. Ardis, one-time associate of Whaley-Eaton, is in business for himself. One which has disappeared was called Federal Trade Information Service. Countless are bulletins published by various trade lobbies, to post...