Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifty years ago, when the biggest national advertisers were patent-medicine manufacturers and an annual appropriation of $100,000 was regarded as a breath-taking extravagance, George Presbury Rowell started publishing a pocket-size semimonthly journal for advertisers, gave it the chaste title Printers' Ink. U. S. business was feeling the faint stirrings of the machine age. Advertising was destined to become the midwife for mass distribution and Printers' Ink soon became a handmaid for advertisers. Today, Printers' Ink, still pocket-size, is a weekly with 17,803 subscribers who spend nearly all of the nation...
Utah's percentage of population on work relief rolls (2.1) is still the eighth highest in the nation. Although some publicists claim that the Security Program has cared for 22,000 out of 88,000 Mormons in distress, most investigators have concluded that the church has as yet no reliable figures. Significantly, nonpartisan Mormons have for the church's own good lately attempted to correct widespread misunderstandings of the Security Program. Said a paragraph buried in the church's last annual report: "The church has not yet made any effort, or pretended to make any effort...
Answering this challenge, President Roosevelt last February published a detailed report of the nation's health prepared under the supervision of Josephine Roche who, as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1934-37), formerly headed Government health activities. He also called a National Health Conference, which met last week in Washington to sound out popular opinion on an extensive Government program of medical service. Present were 175 delegates of the American Farm Bureau Federation, American Federation of Labor, National Consumers' League, National League of Women Voters, United Mine Workers, etc. Also present were Dr. Hugh Cabot, leader...
...barked: "I don't know whether the medical profession is any more proud of him [Cabot] than he is of the medical profession." As for the plan, he continued "centralization of control of medical service by any State agency" would bring "great danger to the health of the nation." Said Editor Fishbein, vexed that Miss Roche had not consulted the potent A. M. A. in preparing her program: "I could tear to pieces . . . this program. . . . Medical care is not the most important problem before the people of the United States today. . . . The fundamental needs of mankind are food, fuel...
Taking this at its face value, thin-lipped Cinema Tsar Will Hays replied: "Motion-picture producers, wholesale distributors and leading exhibitors of the nation will generally welcome the prospect of a comprehensive, fair and conclusive endeavor to clarify the application of existing laws to the trade customs inherent in the development of the motion-picture industry...