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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon last week the 30 enlisted men and one officer, who make up the detachment, mounted their little ponies, and in their vivid blue, red-striped uniforms, with sabres flashing, pennants streaming, charged past in review before U. S. officers and guests at Peking's Breckinridge Field. It was their last review. With the Japanese patrolling the city, U. S. Army authorities decided to disband and dismount the Horse Marines, shunt half the personnel to Tientsin, transfer the remainder to other marine units...
Forty-eight years ago March 1, Isaac Kauffman Funk and Adam Willis Wagnalls, both Lutheran pastors, brought out the Literary Digest, "a repository of contemporaneous thought and research as presented in the periodical literature of the world." Such a review, thought Partners Funk & Wagnalls, would be especially handy for theologians and educators. The Literary Digest amended its formula in 1905 to include newspaper comment on news more mundane than "thought and research." In ten years its circulation stepped...
...Last June, the magazine having scraped bottom long enough, Funk & Wagnalls sold it to the Albert Shaws, father and son, for what was reported as a generous $200,000-only one percent of what the Literary Digest had been valued at in its prime. Merged with the Shaws' Review of Reviews as The Digest it did no better, was taken over four months later by Magazine "Doctor" George F. Havell and a syndicate of friends. They restored the old name Literary Digest, but little of its old revenue or prestige. Last week it suspended, paid up its employes, announced...
These quarters the editors shared with the newborn Saturday Review of Literature. Partitions between the two offices did not reach to the ceiling and sometimes TIME'S editors were disturbed by jovial Christopher Morley coming to call on the Saturday Review's editors (Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, Amy Loveman, William Rose Benét), bringing his welcome in the form of a bottle of whiskey which he opened by pounding on a desk until its cork came...
John W. O'Boyle of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a Holy Cross graduate was named as Case Editor; Bennett Boskey of New York City, who graduated from Williams College, was chosen as Book Review Editor. The post of Treasurer went to Nathan L. Halpern...