Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Young Mr. Cowles and his father, Gardner Cowles, have a monopoly of the newspaper business in Des Moines. Their papers, Register (morning and Sunday) and Tribune-Capital (evening), too big for Des Moines, circulate through all Iowa. They are read by more inhabitants of the state where the tall corn grows than any other publications, except possibly the Bible and the Sears, Roebuck catalog...
...long ago a Sunday editor [of the World) insisted on editing a contribution to one of the newspaper columns. Somebody had written in to say that before the triumphs of Lindbergh most Americans had regarded all Scandinavians as dullwitted. 'Heywood,' said the responsible editor, 'don't you realize that our Swedish readers would be offended...
...Last Sunday morning the biggest news in Chicago was a black headline across the top of the front page of "the World's Greatest Newspaper": MAX MASON QUITS...
...president of a university as important a local figure as the president of the University of Chicago. His name is put on reception committees, figures in civic drives. He is a bigger frog in Chicago than Nicholas Murray Butler is in Manhattan. So it was indeed news last Sunday when Max Mason, 50, resigned as president of the University of Chicago, to become director of the newly-created Division of Natural Sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation of Manhattan. Chicago regretted his resignation, for his three-year administration on the Midway had been energetic, progressive...
...Staunton, Va., six cops made a bet with six reverend preachers. Police against preachers would play volleyball. If the police won, the preachermen would go to jail for an hour. If the preachers won, the cops would go to church the next Sunday and stay for the sermon. ... On Wednesday the games were played. Next Sunday in the front pew of the Episcopal church sat the police force. "God" cried Volleyman-Preacherman J. Lewis Gibbs in the pulpit "is on the side that hits the hardest volleyball...