Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heating Contractors' Trade Journal, Nation's Schools, Modern Hospital. The last two Publisher Tichenor promptly sold back to their former owner. Then he scooped up The Port, a little-known monthly published by the Port of New York Authority. He plans to build it into a shipping men's review of port news the world over...
...Opener was founded 20 years ago as an iconoclastic review of British and Canadian politics by the late Robert Chambers ("Bob") Edwards, M. P. who resided in Calgary, Alta. Three years after Publisher Edwards' death in 1922, Eye Opener was bought by the late Harvey Fawcett who had broken away from the publishing business of his brothers Wilford and Roscoe. Brother Harvey changed Eye Opener to its present form, ran it's circulation up to a claimed 200,000. When he died in 1928 the magazine was bought by one Henry Myers who in turn sold it to Mrs. Fawcett...
...Congressman La Guardia telling why he fought the Sales Tax last April; a refutation of the theory that all bankers are all-wise; an estimate of Clarence Darrow ("Portrait of a Great Actor") by Louis Adamic; an account of the witlessness of book publishers; a behind-scenes political review by Robert S. Allen, one of the authors of The Washington Merry-Go-Round; a dispassionate report of Harlan, Ky. mine disorders by Eve Garrette Grady; a sketch of California's Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph; bits of verse; an estimate of the late Ivar Kreuger; a revelation that cowboys...
...book is written in much the same manner as the daily review of the Royal Academy exhibition. The words round out nicely, but when you come to analyse them, they mean little or nothing. It seems to be the sort of criticism in which Englishmen excell...
...Patrick as a conspicuous example, the Congress would take as its theme "The Propagation of the Sainted Eucharist by Irish Missionaries." There would be many religious doings, very gala indeed. Previous Congresses have had their characteristic notes, wrote Managing Editor Vincent de Paul Fitz-patrick of The Catholic Review. In Chicago there was the "enthusiasm of the Americans"; in Rome "the everlasting glory of the church"; in Spain "the love of beauty and gallantry of the Spanish"; in Carthage "the memory of the martyrs." In Dublin, undoubtedly, it would be "the Faith of the Irish...