Word: tabloidally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regretted that ideals once formed should be shattered and fine conceptions overturned. In the past TIME has won its way to public favor through its accuracy in presenting current events in a crisp, snappy and concise style, and in giving to its readers information in tabloid form, and thus vitalizing its news, rather than fictitious stories, interesting because they are scurrilous...
...paper started by selling stock at $5 a share to Harlem notables like Bishop R. C. Lawson, Alderman John W. Smith, Mortician Rodney Dade; white politicians like Tammany District Leader Thomas F. Murray; and to ordinary residents of Harlem reached by door to door canvass. In appearance, the tabloid Citizen looks like a compromise between the dignified Evening Post and the blatant Daily Mirror. Last week's front pages contained, not pictures, but stories of a specially lively shooting in a Harlem cabaret, a Brooklyn fire in which eight Negroes perished. First issues of the Daily Citizen...
Philadelphians chortled as a chorus hoofer, picked for his amazing likeness to "Davy" (Edward of Wales), was heckled by imperious Helen Broderick as Queen Mary about amorous escapades on his South American tour which Her Majesty had picked up from Tabloid Tattler Walter Winchell. "Well, it was a nice moonlight night," stammered the hoofer. "... I remember we got to talking about Havelock Ellis and after that everything is blank." Meanwhile Leslie Adams as a too-stout George V leered, "I'll tell you what, Davy. We'll go to Bali-the Island of Bali-and stir up some...
...Publisher Alfred John Kobler of the Hearst tabloid Mirror made a fortune as president of Hearst's rich American Weekly. The Mirror, long a money-loser, is supposed...
...done. Last week Mr. Nason assumed temporary editorship of the Post, announced a drastic change in format, began cleaning house. First to go were Editor Julian Starkweather Mason and Managing Editor Ralph Renaud. The Post will be reduced from eight columns to five, will become the second conservative tabloid in the U. S.* There was still a possibility that Publisher Martin's hustling rival, Publisher Julius David Stern of the Philadelphia Record, would buy the Post this week, try to rebuild its shrunken circulation (86,000 last March). By-Line Business...