Word: outlooks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...months by G. P. O. for executive departments for public sale: Capons & Caponizing (5¢); "I'm Alone" (10¢); The Commercial Forcing of Lilies-of-the-Valley (10¢); The Disinfection of Stables (5¢); American and European Swords (357#162;); Poultry Keeping in Back Yards (10¢); Specifications for Nail Pullers (5¢); Outlook for the Mackerel Fishery (10¢); Philippine Land Mollusks...
...appearance before the convention is unprecedented and unusual but these are unprecedented and unusual times. We will break foolish traditions and leave it to the Republican leadership to break promises. . . . Ours must be a party of liberal thought, of planned action, of enlightened international outlook and of the greatest good to the greatest number...
...famed, was looming on the horizon of U. S. magazine publishing. The advancing figure was that of gruff-voiced Frank Aloysius Tichenor, publisher of Aero Digest and Sportsman Pilot. Last week found him in control of a strange new collection: The Spur, Plumbers' & Heating Contractors' Trade Journal, The Port, Outlook & Independent...
While he was busy slashing overhead in Spur's spacious Madison Avenue offices (he began by making the magazine a monthly), Publisher Tichenor was telephoned by a friend that Outlook & Independent, which suspended publication in April, was that day to be auctioned by a bankruptcy referee. Funk & Wagnalls were bidding $2,000 for it, planning only to use its subscription list for the Literary Digest. A faithful admirer of the late Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote for Outlook in its heyday, Publisher Tichenor bustled downtown to court, determined to see old Outlook kept alive. He sent the bidding skyward...
Frank Aloysius Tichenor is much more believable as publisher of Outlook than as publisher of Spur. Rough-&-ready, earthy, amazingly energetic, simple in his tastes, his interests lie far afield from Spur's studied elegance. He is a natural and practiced politician. Now a Republican, he is convinced that the time is nearly ripe for a Third Party, sees an opportunity to rebuild Outlook's influence to what it was in Roosevelt...