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Word: tabloidizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were no names, and little prospect of there being any names, connected with "a change of policy" announced last week by the Washington News, Scripps-Howard tabloid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Whass Bizness ... ? | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...reporting the news of the sale it was not too extraordinary that the Hearst syndicate, raising the price with habitual exaggeration to $1,250,000, should have described the painting as "Raphael's masterpiece, Madonna and Child . . ."; or that the Daily News, Manhattan tabloid, should have printed a reproduction of a Raphael Madonna which was not the one Duveen had bought, in the apparently idiotic assurance that there exists only one Madonna and that Raphael painted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Madonna | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...current craze for the day's news in tabloid has lately invaded the precincts hitherto ruled by scholarship unchallenged, and has given us history, literature, philosophy, and even the sum of man's knowledge packed between the covers of single volumes for the enrichment and delectation of those who wish to become educated in nine days. An examination of the table of contents of Mr. Parsons' book might lead one to believe that it is just another by product of the boiling-down of the elements of the story of the earth. But it is in reality more than that...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: History | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

McCormick & Patterson. The two newspapers with the largest circulations in the U. S. are the New York Daily News (daily 1,226,000, Sunday 1,416,000) and the Chicago Tribune (daily 811,000, Sunday 1,167,000). The first, a tabloid, is the offspring of the second. Both are published by Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, 47, and Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson, 49. Col. McCormick devotes most of his time to the Tribune, while Capt. Patterson's chief interest is the Daily News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: At the Waldorf | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...Alexander Pollock Moore, U. S. Ambassador to Peru, who has gone into the tabloid business by purchasing from William Randolph Hearst the New York Daily Mirror and Boston Advertiser (TIME, March 19), signed his name last week to an advertisement which said: "I am sure you will agree with me that an up-to-date, clean, interesting tabloid is the paper you want. You will find it contains all the news that 95% of the people want to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Potpourri | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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