Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decent way the facts about the birth of a baby which every child should know," New York State's Knights of Columbus complained to New York City's five county district attorneys. Result was that District Attorney Samuel L. Foley of The Bronx arrested four news dealers for selling indecent literature. LIFE prepared to defend them, as it did dealers in Boston...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
Most comforting of all to stockholders who had been reading the woeful financial pages lately, was the news that both NBC and CBS had a larger advertising revenue in March than either of them had ever had in one month before. NBC figures: $3,800,000; CBS: $3,000,000. Radio advertising is mostly contracted for in 13-week lumps, which protects the networks from any really precipitous fall in earnings. But not even the most melancholy stockholder, considering what has happened to advertising in most newspapers and magazines in the last six months, could refrain from concluding that...
HELLO AMERICA!-Cesar Saerchinger- Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). First mikeside account of transatlantic news broadcasting, by the radio impresario who in 1930 originated the idea. An informative volume, packed with anecdotes that are frequently more interesting than the broadcasts of Saerchinger's celebrated clients. Illustrated...
...good of baseball everyone is hoping that the 1938 season may see a change. In the American League the return of the fabulous "Schoolboy" Rowe may put Detroit on top, or Cleveland's lightning thrower Bob Feller may have enough to give his team the verdict. With the news that the one and only Dizzy Dean has been traded to the already powerful Chicago Cubs, it looks as if the New York Giants were through. In any case, the major league race marks the acme of sportdom, and the eyes of the world are focused...