Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called Playwright George Bernard Shaw "a tiresome old driveller." Playwright Shaw did not smack Critic Swaffer's face. Instead, at the annual luncheon of the Critics' Circle last month in London, when Toastmaster St. John Ervine divided dramatic critics into three kinds?"critics, reporters and Hannen Swaffer"?Shaw said all dramatic critics were very bad, compared Swaffer to the late great Playwright-Critic William Archer,* said that Archer was worse...
...decision was handed down in a case brought by Strong Publishing Co., publishers of the Chicago Daily News, against the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Said the Daily News: $220,806.78 excess taxes had the News paid from 1919 to 1921 because the Commissioner had refused to consider the News's Associated Press membership, the News's circulation, the News's "good will" as tangible property...
...Said the Board of Tax Appeals: press membership, circulation and "good will," while "factors in the appraisement of the business as a whole," are not "susceptible of separate and independent valuations...
Last April Editor & Publisher (newspaper trade weekly) said an A. P. franchise might be valued at $1.50 per unit of city population: i. e. in a city of 300,000 an A. P. franchise would be valued...
...copies. The National Publishers Association registered a sharp protest with Postmaster-General Brown, who referred the matter to slender Arch Coleman, his First Assistant. Publishers were particularly agitated by the possibility that the Post Office was offering sales competition to authorized sales agents if. as the Kansas City advertisement said, there was "opportunity to purchase copies of current magazines at nominal cost." The publishers' first protest was made in September...