Word: topic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ghostwriters Bureau will tackle almost any topic. "We write it-YOU sign it" is their slogan. Ghosts Baer & Woods ex-newspaper reporters, do only the simpler forms of ghost writing: goodwill speeches, letters-to-the-editor, sales letters, etc. Other work they farm out on a fee basis to 200 writers on their list. Forty of these are professors at Columbia, Fordham, New York University. The rest are working newspapermen and assorted specialists. Rates range from 1½? a word for routine editing to 8? a word for articles on technical subjects requiring considerable research. They handle about 20 jobs...
...themselves some of the scenes and characters of the year's biggest story, Insurgent Labor. Four hundred of N. E. A.'s 3,000 members arrived for a busy week of speechmaking and fun. Will Loomis of the La Grange 111. Citizen helped start things with the topic. "Where do we go from here?'" Then the editors were shown a cooking school film entitled The Bride Wakes Up and heard from the folksy syndicate poet. Edgar A. Guest. Ford Motor Co. scheduled a lunch at Dearborn Inn, a trip through Greenfield Village and a speech...
...Parliament will be raised from ?400 to ?600 ($2,000 to $3,000) a year. From the benches on both sides came shattering applause. For his very last "last word" before retiring from House harness, "the most popular Prime Minister since Balfour" could scarcely have picked a more felicitous topic...
Claiming that there was no immediate danger of a general European war on a large scale, Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney professor of History, gave the fourteenth and final lecture Wednesday night in the series sponsored by the "Guardian" and broadcast over WAAB. His topic was "A Gilmpse of Europe...
Relationships between government and business is the general topic to be discussed. The opening meeting will be held on then afternoon of the 18th in the Reading Room of Baker Library when Glenn A. Bowers, director of the division of Unemployment Insurance of New York State, William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, and Thomas H. Sanders, professor of Accounting, will speak...