Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purchase of $19,303 worth of advertising in the Free Press in 1937 at a price "far in excess of the ... regular advertising rates...
...granting of 5% discounts on monthly bills for the Free Press and Mr. McDonald's stores after they had become "delinquent," and, according to company advertisements, not subject to discount...
...action on his old foe-shrewd, ponderous, Publisher-Editor George Fort Milton of the rival News, who is an old and valued friend of Secretary of State Cordell Hull. "Publisher Milton," he snapped, "has long swaggered over the country as the lord of the Tennessee Valley. . . . The Free Press will continue to compete with his ... newspaper with every honest means...
...company arranged to pay to one Silas Williams, an attorney, under the style and guise of counsel fees, the sum of $10,000 . . . all of which said Williams shortly thereafter turned over to The Chattanooga Free Press in ostensible consideration for the issue to him of certain shares of stock...
Advertising, the flossy handmaiden of Big Business, has long tempted certain rapacious New Deal reformers. But with the U. S. still clinging to Freedom of the Press, nothing had been done about advertising (with the exception of liquor) until last week when Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold produced a scheme which, snorted Columnist David Lawrence, "makes the late Huey Long, who tried to put a tax on publications of large circulation, look like an amateur." Trust Buster Arnold's scheme was deftly dovetailed into the long-expected announcement by the Department of Justice that its anti-trust suits against...