Word: subways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cinderella Warner tripped gaily out of Harvard to pose for the Daily Record, a little paper in Boston, and to write of her escapades and escapes in the Harvard Union. Since then the subway rider wearily rocketing his way homeward, has been delighted by the slightly bovine features and Pepsodent smile of Little Kay peeping coyly at him from some twelve pictures. For the literate portion of their customers the Record has provided Kay's own simple story told in her own simple way; and it is hard to see how even the most hardened can help but feel...
...their office and their office tells the newspapers in some 75,000 words a day. Thus, when the Times reports that a woman's body was fished out of the East River, or that an out-of-town buyer was killed in a taxi smash, or that three subway beggars got 30 days, it means in most cases that City News supplied the facts to the Times...
...Commercialization of contraceptives has ceased to be clandestine. Stella Bloch Hanau of the Birth Control Review says that in the vicinity of New York alone 300 manufacturers are making contraceptives of one sort or another. Peddlers hawk material on subway platforms. A 1932 survey of western Florida showed that one form of contraceptive was being sold in 376 gasoline stations, garages, restaurants, soda fountains, barber shops, pool rooms, cigar stands, news stands, shoe shine parlors, grocery stores. Slot machines for dispensing exist in several states. Contraceptives are now advertised in such magazines as Outdoor Life, Eagle Magazine, Illustrated Mechanics...
...letters that Governor Herbert H. Lehman had written him week before attacking what he felt was dictatorship in the Mayor's proposed economy bill (TIME. Jan. 15). Equally hot was Mayor LaGuardia's defense: He must balance the budget by Feb. 1 to get Federal money for subway construction, and, said he. the budget could not be balanced by an "essay" on dictatorship. At Albany the two statesmen were all coolness and suavity. Graciously the Governor invited the Mayor to spend the night in his mansion; graciously the Mayor declined. They exchanged their views at luncheon...
...under a prominently displayed Veritas seal, "The Graduate School of Business Administration of Harvard University Announces its Second EXTRA SESSION...especially designed for young men of ability..." One looked on with more cynicism than surprise when the H. A. A. took to boosting the sale of football tickets by subway posters, but one hardly expected to find the Business School seducing unwary prospects by magazine advertisements. Apparently its ballyhoo about placing all its graduates (as clerks in chain groceries) isn't having its calculated effect on the enrollment...