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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...omitted to mention along with the fact that Hearst dragged his readers through depravity, jingoism, and sex murder, that he was the first to campaign for good roads, woman's suffrage, that through his mother he established the Parent-Teachers' Association, and that in the horse-&-buggy days this was yellow journalism. Today, it is accepted progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...While New York Sleeps" (and the audience takes a few cat-naps too)--is a tawdry murder story hot off the Hollywood assembly line. Ford can do it but Hollywood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/23/1939 | See Source »

...Edgar Allan Poe, the father as well as acknowledged master of the detective story and murder mystery, have several of his horror tales published in Godey's Lady's Book? Please correct me if I am wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Although the parties of the left have always been known for the bitterness of their quarrels, it has been left to Stalinism to introduce the methods of slander, kidnapping, murder, and frame-up trials. You all know of the Moscow confession trials. . . . Perhaps you know of the slander campaign against John Dewey and other liberal and radical figures for their participation on the Committee for the Rights of Asylum for Leon Trotsky. In Loyalist Spain where the G.P.U. was much more in evidence than Russian arms, the Trotskyites and the POUM were murdered and framed by the Stalinists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/16/1939 | See Source »

...hysteria. Hearst never believed in anything much, not even Hearst, and his appeal was not to men's minds but to those infantile emotions which he never conquered in himself: arrogance, hatred, frustration, fear. But while Hearst dragged his readers vicariously through every depravity from jingoism to sex murder, he also helped to perpetuate a nation's songs, its humor and its heroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dusk at Santa Monica | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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