Word: printings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connection with the article on the Reader's Digest in your issue of Nov. 2, it might be of news interest to your readers to know that a complete issue of that periodical is published simultaneously in Braille by the American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville. There is very slight resemblance in format as the greater bulk necessitated by the embossed letters results in three volumes, each 13½ in. by 11 in. and over an inch thick, instead of the pocket-size edition for those who can see. Originally each issue was incorporated in one volume...
...That chipper little Irish columnist, Edward Arthur Donald St. George Hamilton Chichester, Marquess of Donegall continued silent in print about the King & Mrs. Simpson but complained in private of the service he is getting from a Milwaukee clipping bureau. It had already littered his house and office with 20,000 different clippings about the King & Mrs. Simpson last week when he canceled his order by cable. Next day the postman brought 6,000 more clippings and Lord Donegall deplored what his curiosity was going to cost...
...Republic ever came to have the notion that it is his right to face French journalistic organizations with such alternatives was this week the burning question. Alluding to the fact that the Premier is a Jew, the Royalist newsorgan Action Française blustered, "Can't we even print that Blum has been circumcized...
...This was printed and nothing was done about it, but Premier Blum does intend to introduce shortly a law compelling all French newsorgans to list and publish the sources from which they derive their income. It is against this that M. Guimier and his friends have been waging what became an open vendetta when the Premier forced him out of Havas. Under the new law the Premier's own newsorgan, Le Populaire, will have to print that it is largely subsidized by the Socialist Party: L'Humanité will have to print that it is subsidized...
...situations crop up in the fundraising business. Once Tamblyn & Brown were getting nowhere with a drive for Williams when they happened to print part of the college song. The Mountains, in a solicitation letter. That drew a nice flutter of checks. Horace Dutton Taft wanted to raise $2,000,000 for Taft School but it was pointed out to him that the school was his private property. Headmaster Taft generously deeded the school to his trustees and Tamblyn went ahead with the drive...