Word: millioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sake of the rest of Asia as a whole, as well as for the people of China" that the Chinese Government of Generalissimo Chiang have been "unable to act wisely and well with calm judgment but . . . are even now calling for prolonged resistance, regardless of the plight of 400 million people of China, whom they have plunged into the depths of suffering and misery...
...million five hundred thousand people (42% of the 6,000,000 sick every day) suffer from chronic diseases-heart disease, hardening of the arteries, rheumatism, nervous diseases...
...True Confessions has been growing at a great rate for two years, pushing above the million mark. True Story has also grown, to 2,300,000, is a big Macfadden moneymaker. When it learned that Mr. Fawcett had managed a publicity tie-up with Paramount on Carole Lombard's picture True Confession, Mr. Macfadden's True Story looked briskly to its circulation laurels. True Confessions, with $15,000 spent in exploitation, ordered several hundred thousand more February copies than it had been selling, put them on sale December 24, six days early. But by last week Mr. Fawcett...
...skeptical of Mrs. Nieman's gift: "She has picked the wrong kind of people to go to Harvard-reporters, editorial writers, special writers. . . . It is the publishers who hold back a newspaper. . . . Because publishers want to make a lot of money so that their widows can leave a million dollars to send somebody back to Harvard. Hearst went to Harvard, and he couldn't elevate a standard if it was rigged up with pulleys...
...widow of a Milwankee publisher has bequeathed a million dollars so that newspapermen, on their leaves of absense, can study at Harvard. She hopes that this will elevate the standards of journalism in the United States. We do, too, but we're afraid that the plan has its drawbacks. For one thing, newspapermen as a class don't get leaves of absence. They either get fired or they take sick and die. For another thing, she has picked the wrong the kind of people to go to Harvard reporters, editorial writers, special writers. Obviously the people who could...