Word: todays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some of you will perhaps tell me that if that is my decision a general war will result. If so, so much the worse. I do not believe that we can meet, in the future, circumstances much more favorable than those that exist today. I hold that Germany, Italy and Japan are in a position to conquer today all their enemies combined. The hour, therefore, has sounded to take the supreme risk...
...Anthony Eden, former Foreign Secretary who could not stomach appeasement, outlined a new foreign policy: "Not only to be tough, but to look tough, to talk tough, and to act tough is the best contribution we as a people can make to peace today...
...life on other planets, was inspired by Jules Verne's and H. G. Wells's fantasies. Father of pseudo-scientific magazines was a shrewd, fat old man named Hugo Gernsback, an old-time radio fan, who in 1926 started Amazing Stories. It zoomed like a moonward rocket. Today the magazines in this prosperous publishing group (chiefly controlled by the big pulp firms of Street & Smith, Standard Magazines and Ziff-Davis), average about 150,000 readers apiece (sometimes much more), make a good living for many a shamo-scientific writer...
...after the World War in a red-&-yellow whirl under the editorship of Emile Gauvreau, later editor of Bernarr Macfadden's late New York Graphic. The Courant readers (44.000 daily, 67,000 Sunday) get for their 4? no big headlines but plenty of features, local titbits, hobby news. Today the Old Lady is reaping the reward of her most impressive campaign, a consistent fight on Prohibition. Hard pressed by Frank Gannett's Evening Times, which refuses liquor advertising, the Courant enjoys about $50,000 worth a year...
...accuses advertising of improper use of testimonials, of "widespread" misrepresentation of goods, of inducing people to want more things and become extravagant, of taking advantage of human psychology by playing on people's vanity and emotions. It concedes that "it is impossible to carry on our economic life today without advertising," but adds: "we must ask ourselves if all the advertising today is wise and necessary." Among other things it credits Mr. Falk's organization with having done much to eliminate unfair advertising practices. Mr. Falk retorts: "We regret that his discussion of [our work] is much...