Word: reviewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editor Wallace next began to supply free articles to other magazines. According to FORTUNE, since the practice began a year-and-a-half ago. some 60 such articles have first been planted in magazines like Scribner's, Forum and Century, American Mercury, North American Review, Today The Rotarian. All Reader's Digest gets from this curious deal is the right to reprint what it had originally created. This maneuver indicates that, if necessary, Editor Wallace could furnish his large and loyal following with a readable publication without having recourse to the files of other magazines...
...your review of the film Ramona (TIME, Oct. 5), you use the word "squaw" in describing the mother of the heroine. I believe that this word means "woman" in the Algonquin language, but in most other tribes it was unknown, until introduced by whites. Among the Teton Sioux, of whom I am one, the word is a term of reproach applied to loose women. It was acquired from whites who used it freely in speaking slightingly of Indian women...
Government policy in its relation with the business world is the chief theme of the Harvard Business Review which is being published today. The leading article is by J. Franklin Ebersole, professor of Finance, who weighs the relative power of the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve System and reaches the conclusion that the power residing in that of the former exceeds that of the Reserve system...
...lines, Make a house where gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean, found his adulterous passion creating an impossible situation. So did his father who discovered his secret, died soon after All this was the substance of a matter-of-fact novel that won the Dodd, Mead Pictorial Review $10,000 prize contest las week. Simple to the point of bleakness ir its plot, The Old Ashburn Place goes or to recount Charlie's gradual resignation before the complexities of life, his reconciliation with his brother, the accidental death of the erring wife that saved her from disgrace, Charlie...
...clock. Dr. Gustavus J. Esselen who is a prominent Boston consulting chemist will be the principal speaker. His subject is "The Chemistry of Cellulose and its Industrial Applications." Professor Grinnell Jones, the unofficial faculty advisor to the club, will take a few minutes to review the history of the club...