Word: sharpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because newspapers have long resented radio, have had to lower advertising rates while radio rates are rising, bitter anti-radio feeling was expected at last week's convention of the American Newspaper Publishers Association in Manhattan. But no sharper attack on radio was forthcoming than the suggestion by Col. Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, that features whose goodwill has been built up through the Press (Joe Palooka, Walter Winchell, Orphan Annie, Emily Post et al.) should not be allowed to capitalize their popularity before the microphone. Newspapers' attitude toward radio is softening, changing from antagonism...
Hero of the Federal Reserve Act was little Carter Glass of Virginia. Last week Senator Glass, now 74, sharper in voice and crustier in manner than in 1913, was again cast in a heroic role. An archfoe of speculation for many a long year, he was bitterly chagrined with 1929?5 great wave of stock inflation in defiance of the Federal Reserve. After a year's investigation he proposed reforms which he felt would halt speculation for good and all?reforms which would alter the entire conduct of a nation's banking, which law-makers called sweeping, bankers devastating...
...comes bitter iconoclasm in the form of "Maguire, Builder of Men," a satirical study by John R. Tunis in the December Harper's. Mr. Tunis has long been a heretic among the orthodoxy of sports writers, but it is doubtful if his pen has ever been sharper. In his current piece, it is not what he says but what he implies that bites. His subject is Maguire, an imaginary person, typical of the successful and famous football coach. Everything that he says about "Doc" Maguire is most flattering...
Abroad the reaction was less favorable. In England, .Lombard Streeters referred to the plan as "a damp squib." Sir Walter Layton, Bank of England's representative on the Wiggin Committee, said it was "controlled inflation." In Paris the criticism was sharper, the eventual reaction on the Bourse violent. The third bank failure in Paris in ten days was announced, that of Banque Syndicale...
Last fortnight Governor Roosevelt sought to bring his national issue into sharper focus by taking an early poke at President Hoover. Though he failed to draw the President out into a pre-campaign controversy on water power, he did succeed in winning a small tactical advantage in New York State, thanks to White House bungling of the correspondence...