Word: publishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Association published The Crisis, later to reach its peak of influence under the editorship of Atlanta University's scholarly VV. E. Burghardt Du Bois.* It circulated a news service to the Negro press, which now numbers over 200 papers and magazines. It lobbied for Negro legislation, and, when a post-War wave of lynchings carried off ten returned Negro soldiers in 1919 (two of them burned alive), it began to spend an increasing amount of its energy promoting State and then Federal anti-lynching laws. Palefaced Negro White did his job well. He talked to members of mobs that executed...
Last week 245 printers on the three big daily newspapers in Portland, Seattle's sister city in the industrially restless Northwest, struck for a $9 seven-hour day, refused to arbitrate further. Instead of the classic newspaper tactics of trying to fight it out, publish a paper somehow, Portland's Oregonian, Oregon Journal and News-Telegram just closed down. While Portlanders spun their radio dials for news, police posted in the newspapers' plants twiddled their thumbs. There was no violence. The American Newspaper Guild is notably weak in Portland, so instead of supporting the striking printers, editorial...
...despair," included a hope that the work was worthy of the devotion of "a dauntless and unshaken friend," and closed with a confession that the book would never have been written without it. Last week Thomas Wolfe, announcing that it had always been his good fortune to have publishers of the "finest ability and highest integrity," also disclosed that hereafter Harper would publish his novels. Reported consideration: advance royalties...
...Divorced last week from the book publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons was Scribner's Magazine. Harland Logan Associates Inc. henceforth will publish Scribner's. Charles Scribner's Sons retain controlling interest in the new corporation, which soon will bring out a digest of radio programs. When 33-year-old Harland Logan became editor-publisher of Scribner's 15 months ago he applied all he had learned as Conde Nast and Macfadden consultant, lifted Scribner's face, streamlined its figure. In 15 months Scribner's 40.000 subscribers trebled...
...Vermont guides meant that four of the New England States* had been covered. This month, guides to Philadelphia, New Orleans, Mississippi, North & South Dakota are scheduled for publication. In February the Writers' Project will wind up New England with guides to New Hampshire and Connecticut and will publish its first big highway tour, U. S. 1, tracing the 2,000-mile road mile by mile, landmark by landmark, from Calais, Me. to Key West, Fla. Some time in the spring the Project will release Whaling Masters in Massachusetts, U. S. 30-The Oregon Trail, The Ocean Highway. Also scheduled...