Word: organizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest" newspaper is the London Daily Herald. It is owned by Odhams Press, Ltd., but Odhams means Julius Elias, its chairman and managing director. Since picking up the Herald, a doddering Laborite organ, five years ago, busy little Julius Elias has rammed its circulation from 250,000 to more than 2,000,000. In so doing he led the English Press in the most insanely expensive circulation war that circulation-war-torn isle had ever seen (TIME, Sept. 25, 1933). All the popular London newspapers pitched into the furious scramble for readers, bribing them with every premium imaginable from sets...
...grown too numerous to warrant discussion in Chairman Elias' annual speech, but the shareholders knew better than to worry. Every decrepit sheetlet that Elias has picked up, he has turned into a moneymaker. The Herald, when Elias found it, was on its last legs as a Laborite party organ because the millionaire publishers Beaverbrook & Rothermere knew better than the Herald's editors what the British workingman wanted to read. Elias fixed that, had its sales up to 1,000,000 in a fortnight. He repeated the feat last year with the Socialist weekly Clarion. In two months...
...guest, Irénée du Pont (middle brother), away for a private conference. Pierre du Pont regaled his guests, practically every last man of whom would have liked a job with the Du Ponts, with a splendid twilight dinner in the ballroom of his gorgeous greenhouse. An organ recital soothed the diners, and colored lights playing on the estate's fountains added more blandishments. But when it came to examining Du Pont manufacturing processes, the visiting chemical engineers saw as little as Du Pont chemical engineers permitted them...
...propounded by Judge Görtz in this learned organ of German jurisprudence, "the penalty of Living Death should entail impossibility of making wills, exercising of paternal or civil rights, deprivation of nationality, impossibility of engaging in any commercial activity and complete social ostracism, the sentence to be read publicly." As Judge Görtz observes, the Nazi ax has its disadvantages "because the death penalty may establish a continued relationship between the condemned and the public"-martyrdom...
That this de-uniforming of his young visitors deeply offended Pope Pius appeared last week in the Vatican's official organ, Osservatore Romano, expressing "pained disgust" at the fact that Germans who had "spent a few days in the residence of a sovereign with whom the Reich is in relations of friendship, should be punished as if they had committed a sin. . . . Christ also received a rope when He was arrested, questioned, attacked and mocked because He was accused of having indulged in politics after a pilgrimage of love and redemption...