Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demonstrations and press fulminations grew in intensity, the situation took on a grave aspect. With as much publicity as possible an Italian royal decree was issued which provided special armaments appropriations of $65,000,000, a 20% increase over the regular military expenses already appropriated. Italy's Chief of Staff and Under Secretary for War, General Alberto Pariani. who has recently visited Berlin, was pointedly dispatched to inspect the defenses on the island of Sardinia, eight miles south of Corsica...
Died. Martin Egan, 66, onetime war correspondent, later for 25 years in charge of J. P. Morgan & Co.'s press relations; of heart disease; in Manhattan. He was correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle at Manila during the Spanish-American War. Later as Associated Press correspondent during the Russo-Japanese war he scored a notable beat on the siege of Port Arthur. In 1908 he became editor of the Manila Times; in 1913 became the Morgan pressagent, proving indispensable to Partner Thomas W. Lamont in dealings with China, to Partner Henry P. Davison in War-time administration...
...even plain readers were buying a few, just as they bought a few stocks. And even printers began publishing de luxe editions. Of the whole lot, only two de luxe publishers survived Depression I: George Macy's Limited Editions Club, and Eugene Virginius Connett Ill's Derrydale Press...
...just the same. The reason was George Macy. A publisher before he was out of Columbia University, Macy had sold 11,000 copies of an anthology of F. P. A.'s light verse, organized his own firm, Macy-Masius. In 1928 he sold out to head the Vanguard Press, his last connection with plain publishing...
...office before nine, usually eats lunch at his desk, stays long after his 25 employes have gone home. Last year he organized Heritage Club, a subsidiary for mass-production of imitation limited editions at $2.50 a copy. Also last year he bought control of England's famed Nonesuch Press, has now intensified his transatlantic commuting schedule...