Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chief among the novelties celebrating the accession of Editor Anthony was a short story contest, with $5,000 offered in prizes for the best stories published during 1929. They are to be very short-not more than 700 words. The judges are to be Ray Long, editor of Cosmopolitan; Merle Crowell, editor of American Magazine; and Robert Benchley, who survived the avalanche as associate editor of Life...
Frank Sullivan set the pace for the short-story writers with one entitled "The Cub Reporter, or The Scoop, or A Slice of Life, or Zaza...
From the offices of the Federal Radio Commission there issued, last week, a dictum. The Commission exercised its right to allot the 639 short-wave channels which are available to commercial broadcasters in the U. S. ether. The Commission had to discriminate among 848 applicants, who asked a total of 2,204 channels...
...Significance. Warden Lawes does not believe in capital punishment. He would substitute life imprisonment for the electric chair. He has great faith in the well-run prison, for long terms or short. To the freed convict, he would have society give a more gentlemanly chance than it now does...
...short, Warden Lawes' premise...