Word: publishers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firm was incorporated in the fall of 1939, a WPA job had folded under him. He now lives in a comfortable new house. Of 16 Flanders booklets, mainly bitterly Anglophobic, he has unloaded some 22,000 copies at prices ranging from 35? to $2 retail. He expects soon to publish titles "by some very prominent and patriotic Americans," says "I am a great admirer of Wheeler, Lindbergh and men of that caliber...
...bill to collect and publish monthly statistics on cottonseed, peanuts, copra, sesame seed, babassu nuts...
Stokes, a 60-year-old house which in its time has published Frances Hodgson Burnett, John Masefield, Gertrude Atherton, Robert 0. Peary, General Pershing, Louis Bromfield, will publish under its own imprint for a while. It brings with it such current authors as Ellery Queen, John Erskine, Eugene Lyons and a strong juvenile list...
President Niles Trammell of NBC persuaded musical General Manager Kent Cooper, 61, of A.P. to publish and broadcast the Cooper-dooper Dixie Girl. Mr. Cooper "wrote the lyric and music in 1923 and the rhythm is of that time." So is the lyric: Never knew such wonderful days, Glorious days, it seems. All because her wonderful ways Make life sweeter than dreams. Chorus: 'Way down in Dixie, In sunny Dixie, Some one's waitin'. Soon I'll be datin' My darlin' Dixie girl...
...becoming increasingly vexed at some of the letters that you publish every week which refer to World War II and the United States' part in it. For they would imply that the United States, by stopping some of its worldwide commerce, protecting its own boundaries, and, becoming, in a word, isolationist, can preserve Democracy. Bunk! Who wants "preserved" Democracy? The United States cannot become a museum for Democracy...