Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second-class mail costs the U. S. about $90,000,000 per year more than publishers pay, no appreciable part of which can be charged against the free distribution of small weeklies in the county of publication. The losses on marine mail are due in a measure to the Jones-White Shipping Act which granted "subventions" to U. S. ships carrying U. S. mails on long-term contracts. Other factors which have increased the deficit have been recent legislation granting increased pay for night postal work, increased allowances to fourth-class postmasters, rate reductions on certain mail classes. The increasing...
...they recognized Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, leading the procession back into the president's office. Also recognized were Rev. David G. Wylie, Lord's Day Alliance president, and Rev. Harry Laity Bowlby, its secretary. Ranged around President Hoover, they made six small speeches each asking the President's support for a Sunday closing law for Washington, where baseball, cinema, sports, now enliven the Sabbath. "Thank you for calling," said the President as the delegation marched out again. In the lobby a newsgatherer asked Mr. Bowlby about the "blue law." He replied...
...without humor, Editor Barzini described a little-suspected shortcoming of the tabloid-size newspaper. When the Corriere first started, he related, a laborer wrote in from Trenton, N. J., and said: "Your newspaper is beautiful and interesting and I like it very much, but it is too small to wrap my lunch in." Added Editor Barzini: "There was torn from our eyes the veil of the mysteries of certain newspaper circulations...
...unlike a small boy was Publisher McCormick when, having been "sold" the 'Untin' Bowler stunt, he found he could not obtain the services of Pilot Carl Ben Eielson, most experienced arctic air navigator alive (Wilkins expeditions). Pilot Eielson, engaged by Aviation Corp., was about to depart for Alaska when Mr. McCormick telephoned to Manhattan from Chicago to persuade, demand, then storm because he could not have...
...popular word and patterns were economical. Scotsman McCall knew how to make them, for he had once been a tailor. Soon the wife of his secretary, writing under the name of May Manton, started The Queen, eight-page fashion sheet. Along with McCall patterns, The Queen prospered in a small way. After Scotsman McCall's death in 1885 May Manton's husband, George H. Bladworth, took charge of The Queen, eventually made it McCall's Magazine...