Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unusual Illinois statute which makes it unlawful to exhibit for pecuniary gain criminal or deformed persons. Federal Judge J. Leroy Adair pondered, decided "exhibiting" meant displaying the person as on a vaudeville stage, refused the injunction. Benton & Bowles's Manhattan publicity department shot out an exultant news release claiming "freedom of speech in commercial broadcasting was upheld for the first time in radio history." Promptly Murderer Durkin's biography was announced for the "Gangbusters" show this week...
While Universal operated always in the red, International News Service had inched into the black in 1935, doubled its list of clients to over 700 papers, mostly evening. The merger makes I. N. S. a 24-hour-service and gives it such feature writers as Damon Runyon, Bugs Baer and Louella Parsons...
...playing golf, dancing and wishing there were more delegates among them like light-haired, blue-eyed Abraham Kouris, 37, of Tel Aviv, Palestine. A Russian who speaks six languages, Appleman Kouris is the leading importer of apples to the region, where according to tradition, the apple first made news (Genesis...
...Street but in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where it soon filled a large window and several counters in the "Boston Store" of Fowler, Dick & Walker. Wilkes-Barre citizens, dripping from an all-day downpour, bought 15% of the shipment on the first day. For retailers in general this was interesting news. For manufacturers of "national brands'' it was the latest package of perturbation from Macy's. Tentatively, but none the less clearly, the department store had entered their own field...
...Names make news," Last week these names made this news...