Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Children's hour stories "must reflect respect for law and order, adult authority, good morals and clean living." Cowardice, malice, deceit, selfishness and disrespect for law must, be avoided, and so must torture, horror (present or impending), superstition, profanity, kidnapping, morbid suspense, hysteria, too much gunplay, death rattles...
...Herald in the 1920s was a newspaperman's alcoholic dream. The pay was not much ($40 a week was top) and the turnover was fast, but the work was easy and two big staffs (afternoon and night) of rewrite and copydesk men could spend half their time in the bistro on the corner or playing cards on the copy desk. The Herald was published in an old building in the Rue du Louvre, adequately covered by insurance, and it was considered all right to light fires in the wastebaskets and put them out with imitation champagne. Only permanent fixtures...
Since Manhattan Lawyer Clarence John Shearn took over the rehabilitation of the Hearst publishing empire, he has done much to restore its financial stability (TIME, March 13). But as William Randolph Hearst's voting trustee and personal representative, Judge Shearn has long felt that a non-Hearst businessman at the head of the Hearst empire would do even more to restore its standing and stability. Last week Judge Shearn found his businessman. John St. Clair Brookes Jr., though almost unknown to the U. S. at large, has already become a power in three top-flight corporations...
...newspaper dogma that reporters and desk men are underpaid, that the only way to make money is to get yourself a column and be a trained seal. Last week's Congressional report on salaries of $15,000 and over in 1937 showed ambitious cubs how much fish the big trained seals...
Civic boosters are likely to damn his book, to complain at the bleakness of the picture he draws. Dilemma of Five Cities is that Author Leighton's enthusiasm for the color and gusto of U. S. life is always at war with his knowledge of the violence of much of U. S. history. But in telling the story in local, rather than national terms, Five Cities suggests that he has tapped one of the richest of unworked U. S. historical mines...