Word: publishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the past week all England was interested in the libel charge brought by Mr. Winston Churchill against Lord Alfred Douglas, second son of the eighth Marquis of Queensberry, for publishing in a paper called Plain English libelous statements. The defendant alleged that Mr. Churchill had plotted with the late Sir Ernest Cassel to publish a false report of the Battle of Jutland, with the object of creating a panic on the neutral stock exchanges in order to sell German stocks at a high price and buy British stocks at a depreciated value...
...said, however, or at least it is so charged, that many members of a faculty ask their university press to publish their researches,--the books whose sale is necessarily limited,--and seek one of the large general publishing houses when they produce something which seems to enjoy the prospect of making a little money...
Labor Party. The Laborites were less active than the other parties in the past week's news. The Party did, however, publish its platform...
...dearest dream is to own a boat big enough to sleep and fry bacon in; to write three good novels and about 30 good plays, each of which would run a year on Broadway. A publisher once came to me and said that I had a Harold Bell Wright vein which I was neglecting to cultivate, and that there was no reason why I shouldn't make $30,000 a year if I would write that kind of book and let him publish it. He is buried in the suburbs of Philadelphia...
...story told by The Fourth Estate was that the Chevrolet Motor Co. offered to pay for nine pages of advertising in the Times, if the Times would publish a 16-page supplement composed as follows: Six pages of "reading matter" on the History of Transportation and The Conquest of Times prepared by the Chevrolet Co.; nine pages of Chevrolet advertisements; one page of advertisement to be sold to another advertiser by the Times...