Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have not the standards, intellectual or moral, which I desire in the periodicals read by my family. I shall quote three examples from your issue...
...example, say that in the last calendar year there were 1,000 subscriptions cancelled by these rather uninteresting people who cannot bear to read an opinion which differs from their own. . . . That means 2,000 subscriptions to pay by the "Friends Of TIME," or some $10,000 (although you might make a lower price for the quantity). Say that only 20,000 of your readers "joined" at 50? each; the 2,000 subscriptions are covered...
...lovely way it would work out. "Ah, you cancel your subscription because we called Senator Umpah an incompetent blowhard; all right-two subscriptions will go out, each of which will be read by a large number of people...
Left to breast the tidal wave publicly have been journalists. Minute is the editorial writer's audience, compared with the multitudes whom Townsend propagandists reach by word of mouth, pamphlets, speeches, club meetings. But last week three of the best & best-read columnists in the land jabbed at the rosily glittering Townsend bubble...
...extraordinary powers procured from Congress in the name of Emergency and Recovery. A group of Texas oil companies were contesting against Presidential orders, issued under section 9c of the National Industrial Recovery Act prohibiting the interstate shipment of "hot oil." With only Justice Cardozo dissenting, Chief Justice Hughes read the court's opinion...