Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Murphy, you will turn to page 30 in the College catalogue of "Expenses and Financial Aids," you will find the following pithy paragraph: WILLIAM STANISLAUS MURPHY. For the "collegiate education of men of the name of Murphy" Several (scholarships), from a total income of $2800. . . All of which means that you're in the money...
...Paragraph 5. "We desire to record our considered opinion that the representatives of Imperial Airways have behaved throughout with perfect propriety. The action taken by them has been dictated by a jealous regard for the honour of the Company and the maintenance of public integrity, and sprang only from a natural apprehension lest the barest suspicion should arise that the relations between the Company and His Majesty's Government had been influenced by individual and personal interests...
TIME itself, rather than Mr. McDonald, seems to be guilty of circulation theft, having swiped, in the paragraph quoted above, 3,859 Sunday readers. The average net paid circulation of the Chattanooga Sunday Times for March 1936 (month before Sunday Free Press started publication) was 38,785; for August...
Tucked away in the Public Utility Act of 1935, lacking even the dignity of a separate paragraph, was a Congressional command to the Securities & Exchange Commission to investigate investment trusts. In the twilight of the 1920's, some $7,000,000,000 worth of investment trusts were floated, according to SEC figures. Their total assets were worth about $2,000,000,000 by the end of last year. It became SEC's job to find out where, how and why the rest disappeared. Last week after over a year of preliminary field work by a staff...
Died. Montague Rhodes James, 73, British educator and classicist, since 1918 Provost of Eton College; after long illness; in Eton, England. Respected among scholars for his Bible studies, his wider fame rested on his best-selling antiquarian ghost stories. His paragraph in Who's Who was 14 lines longer than his nearest competitor, Nicholas Murray Butler...