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Word: newsreel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America is a scrapbook, eclectic but inclusive and not haphazard. Its 200 photographs, drawings, cartoons, handbills, programs, advertisements go swimmingly with the text, help to make the book a continuous, carefully edited newsreel of a day just gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Near-Masterpiece-- | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...Busiest Man. His telephone rang at the rate of once every two minutes. Government officials from the Postmaster General down to the Chairman of the Shipping Board called to offer assistance. He hired Edward L. Bernays, smart Manhattan pressagent, to publicize the Government's work. Into newsreel microphones he preached a gospel of "sprucing up the home" now instead of later. As an aid to public construction he cited $450,000,000 worth of state bond issues which voters can pass upon on Election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Hard Times (New Style) | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...bought several years ago. Soon he would be off again to his 30,000-acre suzerainty in California, trailing across the continent clouds of a glory peculiarly dear to a newspaper man. After dinner he gave his guests a taste of that glory?showed them a Hearst-Metro-tone newsreel of himself as he had appeared debarking from Europe in Manhattan the fortnight before, grinning broadly, waving his hat, clutching the Stars & Stripes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Heyday | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...score of the first game (10 to 5 for the U. S.) had made the second game seem a foregone conclusion. Largest score in international history, 14 to 9,* hung on the hooks when Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr., matriarch of U. S. polo (almost run down by an importunate newsreel truck), watched Mrs. Charles H. Tremayne, wife of the non-playing English captain, hand back the cup to stalwart Thomas Hitchcock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Meadow Brook's Moment | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

From Fox Film Corp. last week resigned Courtland Smith, brother-in-law of Arthur Brisbane, founder and manager of Fox Movietone News, responsible for Manhattan's newsreel theatre, the Embassy. Called by Fox-President Harley L. Clarke "one of the outstanding figures in the motion picture industry" Cineman Smith will become president of Translux Movies Corp., two-weeks old organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

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