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*The social sciences are sociology, economics and political science; part of psychology (attitudes, traits, abilities, collective behavior) and cultural (as distinguished from physical) anthropology. They overflow the bounds of science into law, history, education, linguistics. *Writing on the racetrack information racket last week, Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler observed: "Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: What Are We Doing? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Last week Hatfield Broun put an end to his feud with McCoy Howard by signing a new contract with the New York Post, to take effect day after his World-Telegram contract expires next week. The Post, in place of Scripps-Howard's United Feature Syndicate, will distribute Broun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Transfer | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

By his transfer Broun stands to lose both money and circulation. Scripps-Howard gave him $39,000 a year, close to 3,000,000 readers. From the Post he admits that he will get "considerably less" in salary, plus whatever he nets on syndicate sales. The Post's circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Transfer | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

By 1937, when Recession set in, Nancy had collected over $7,000. Then William Edmund Scripps, president of the Detroit News Corporation, decided to take a hand. He pointed out that with $1,000 a month in donations it would still take eight more years to raise enough. "Make them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bells for Nancy | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Last week on Belle Isle, in a clearing near the centre of the island, overlooking a lagoon, Nancy turned the first shovelful of ground for the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon. She broke the sod with a beribboned spade supplied by Publisher Scripps of the News. The ceremony was unheralded : only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bells for Nancy | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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