Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dealers who bought his sales ideas. But when Michigan auto workers went on strike dealers no longer felt like spending money. Soon business for Cliff Knoble dried up. Last week the consequences of Cliff Knoble's personal depression blossomed in a full-page advertisement in the Detroit Free Press...
...Cliff Knoble. Signer and buyer of the advertisement was The Middle' Class Alliance Inc., composed of small merchants, professional men and upper-salaried white-collar workers who thought they, too, had been caught in the middle. Promoter Knoble placed another full-page advertisement to appear in the Free Press this week, and he hoped to place more if $3 annual dues and contributions flow in properly...
Defending Leftist militiamen under General Jose Miaja retreated steadily but in good order, inflicting severe losses on the attackers. The Rightists, attacking in mass infantry assaults, were estimated by the Associated Press to have lost 10,000 men. The Leftists, following strictly defensive tactics, lost...
...commercial basis, invited a limited number of sponsors to advertise. Only products personally approved by Engineer Hogan himself are permitted the use of his air waves, and their announcements are held to a strict standard of dignity and terseness. Typical sponsors have included Random House, the Oxford University Press, the Theatre Guild. Martinson's Coffee, the American Tobacco Co. One of them, the Book-of-the-Month Club, apologizes for taking up the listeners' valuable time. Despite these restraints, WQXR has turned into a sound moneymaker, has already grossed some...
...since lived quietly at Manhattan's Yale Club, studied steadily at the New School for Social Research. When the reform group gained control of the reorganized Exchange this spring. Bill Martin was elected chairman of the board of governors (TIME, May 23). He immediately won a friendly press, made a hit with SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. After considering some 200 "big names," the board of governors came to the conclusion that it could find no better symbol of a new stockmarket era than young Bill Martin. At their pleasure, he will hold the job indefinitely. Salary...