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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Culver City, seven mi. west of Los Angeles' midriff, has for two months clamored for the right to use the name Hollywood. Reasons: 1) Culver City boasts three major, several minor film studios;-2) cinemanufacture and Hollywood are synonymous. Not long ago Hollywood's Chamber of Commerce President O. K. Olesen, indignant, maneuvered through the Los Angeles City Council an ordinance defining Hollywood's boundaries, and Culver City, left definitely outside the fence, sullenly threatened to vote itself the name Hollywood anyhow...
...each $1,000 for the title Woman's Day. Mrs. Haydie Yates, who once ran a western dude ranch and became managing editor of Today and New York Woman in rapid succession, was selected to serve up a magazine of household utility, designed to tell women how to use the food they buy. Fashioned around menus and home hints, the 8½-in. by 11½-in. 32-page magazine will carry no fiction or film gossip as does Family Circle...
...suspicious advertising trade could look in vain through Woman's Day for signs that A. & P. intended to use its magazine for editorial propagandizing in favor of chain stores. The Robinson-Patman Act was designed in part to end the evils of advertising allowances from manufacturer to retailer, and Publisher Hanson has stoutly denied that Woman's Day is an attempt to salvage these lost allowances. However, six manufacturers from whom A. & P. buys goods are represented in the first issue of Woman...
Friendly toward the A. S. P. C. A. and the American Humane Association, although the friendship is not entirely reciprocated, are numerous national and local antivivisectionist societies which devote their energies to attacking scientists who use animals for experiments. To them antitoxins and serums produced by infecting animals with disease are anathema. Most prolific distributor of antivivisectionist literature is the Vivisection Investigation League, headed by 81-year-old Sue M. Farrell, who learned her humanitarianism direct from agnostic Robert Ingersoll; anti-vivisectionists also include such unusual celebrities as Fannie Hurst, George Arliss, Ellen Glasgow, Mahatma Gandhi. Irene Castle McLaughlin...
Built on a basis of $3000 taken from surplus funds, the latest aid, entitled the Harvard Engineering Society Aid, will make use of income from this money. Increased by subscription, the fund hopes to total...