Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having thus balanced their spiritual budget, the publishers turned to the problem of financing a free press, bemoaned the drop in national advertising, made plans to snare more...
...Service. A $500 gold medal was awarded to the Bismarck (N. Dak.) Tribune for its news reports and editorials which started a movement for self-help among victims of the dust bowl. To the Edmonton (Alberta) Journal went a special bronze plaque for leadership in defense of a free press in the Province of Alberta...
Meanwhile, Philadelphia's Caricaturist Louis Hirshman happened to issue a biting caricature of Miss Littlefield. Outraged Ballerina Littlefield marched fuming to Philadelphia's Artists' Union to see the caricature, tore it in half (see cut) and (according to press reports) slapped Caricaturist Hirshman. Later Miss Littlefield denied the slap, called it just a push. "My impulse," she continued, "is never to hit. I incline to the tearing of limb from limb...
...thus hammering home the theme that "high-pressure salesmanship" of the manufacturers has contributed to the present automobile glut, Gardner Withrow several times used phrases direct from a press conference of Franklin Roosevelt's along those lines four months ago (TIME, Jan. 17). According to Mr. Withrow this forcing of the market amounts to more than 1,000,000 used cars a year and largely accounts for the annual mortality of from 17% to 25% of dealer establishments. His words brought cheers from the dealers, though a few of them voiced fear of "bureaucratic Government control...
...London, publishers withdrew the autobiography of a prostitute, To Beg I Am Ashamed, after newspaper columnists, before the book's publication, called it disgraceful, sordid, "the vilest book that has ever left a modern printing press." Smarting, the publishers accused columnists of "a gross breach of privilege" in denouncing a book before it appeared, of exaggerating its sensationalism. Critics, agreeing with the publishers, graded the book honest but dreary...