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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Patterson organization. Jewish-born, raised among the Irish of Chicago's First Ward, a newsboy early trained by the Chicago Tribune and for several years by Hearst papers, Max Annenberg learned all there was to know about circulation. When he returned to the Tribune in 1907 he said: "You make the newspaper. Ill sell it." His confidence in himself was shared by the newsdealers, whom he made his friends by every means at his command. Once, when they were crying for newspapers to sell during a Chicago strike, he ignored death threats, put his Tribunes on armed trucks...
...Said he: "I've accepted a job as associate editor of the New York Mirror [tabloid Graphic rival]. My main job will be to conduct a daily column called 'Now' dealing with world affairs. It will be much on the order of Arthur Brisbane's 'Today' except that I hope to make it more satirical and intimate. My new salary will be much larger than what I received from the Graphic...
...funds. W. M. Kern, school superintendent of Walla Walla, Wash., believes that laziness accounts for most failures. Last week he asked his school board to evaluate a high school education, suggested $480, or $30 per course. He would have students who repeat courses pay $30 per repetition. Thus, he said, "no pupil could complain since each ... would have as much money spent on him as any other...
...Pius XI created only one new Cardinal, postponed other elevations until December, made only brief remarks. "Certain events have taken place with which we shall deal later on in the year," he said, evidently referring to friction between the Papal State and Fascist Italy since the signing of their Concordat (TIME...
Several distinguished Jews spoke at last week's meeting, including Chemical Tycoon Lord Melchett and Sir Robert Samuel, famed Liberal. None was more closely attended, however, than orotund Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise of Manhattan, who said: "Theodor Herzl was one of the few men truly epochal . . . because he dared to bid the Jew to be what, for nearly two millenia, he had not dared to be-to be himself, a Jew. . . . Before Herzl came the Jews had been so hurt by the world's ill will that many had denied their own Semitism. Such a denial is infinitely...