Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, McClure Newspaper Syndicate put out a "new" feature. At the head are the words "Strange as It Seems-by John Hix." Below were cartoons and descriptions of astounding freaks, seeming impossibilities. At the bottom appears the legend, "If you doubt this, write for proof to the author...
...fiscal week" sys tem. Each Saturday night the books were closed, reckoning made. Systematizing backstage procedure, he fell naturally into stage managing. Goat Song and Androcles and the Lion were two of his assignments. He has been a consultant and lecturer (Columbia University) on theatrical business problems. Now, in proof of his economic prowess, he has furnished his new offices with one month's interest from the capital collected for Bela Blau, Inc. Members of his board of directors in clude Langdon Post, New York State Assemblyman, onetime cinema critic (New York Evening World), sponsor of a bill...
...financial interest in the public domain, over which there is steady controversy between private operation and the Government, has never proved effective in the manufacture of a disinterested or reliable newspaper. The fact that such type of ownership is usually concealed as long as possible is another proof that it is often dangerous in its purpose." Said the New York Evening Post: "No matter how much Mr. Graustein may protest, the sound sense of the public will know that it is bad public policy to have an important and constantly increasing group of newspapers under the ownership of a great...
...surrounding the raising of the German discount rate that is of primary interest to the world. It is the fact that gold should be drained so readily at the loss of confidence. And it is of as great consequence that the Allied press should seize upon these facts as proof of German bad faith...
Officials of the Bureau of Standards affixed 700 stamps to envelopes, put them in a revolving barrel, turned it with electric power until the edges of the envelopes were worn off: Not one stamp left its envelope. Results: proof that there is no base for recent charges that U. S. stamps do not stick on as long as they used...