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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With John McKelvey as editor-in-chief, the 54-page Vol. 1, No. 1 of the Harvard Law Review appeared in April 1887. Bound with the same drab olive paper which has been used ever since, the first issue featured an article by Harvard's James Barr Ames on Purchase for Value Without Notice, went to 300 subscribers. Just as Harvard's late great Christopher Columbus Langdell's methods of case study became the guide for all U. S. law schools,*the Harvard Law Review quickly became the prototype for law reviews. The Columbia Law Times appeared...
...endowed itself liberally with characteristics of both the publications it aimed to miss. Its cover and typography, its centre section of long corporation stories on Western Union, Sikorsky Aircraft and Promoter George L. Berry, were strongly reminiscent of FORTUNE. Its general run of financial news stories (leading article of Vol. 1 No. 1 was the automobile strike) sounded much like the Journal...
...LIFE OF RICHARD WAGNER, Vol. II: 1848-1860-Ernest Newman-Knopf ($5). Masterly account of the composer's underestimated role in the Revolution of 1849, his chronic professional and domestic wrangling over musical problems, love affairs, debts, odd cures for complicated illnesses. Astute Critic Newman finds more than hearsay behind the story that Wagner's real father was a Jewish actor named Geyer, his mother the illegitimate child of Prince Constantin of Weimar...
Last week Washington saw Vol. I, No. 1 of a new newspaper called the Capitol Daily. In clear and careful detail, the tabloid-size sheet told of legislative doings in the upper & lower Houses of Congress. "What the Senate Did Yesterday" and ''What the House Did Yesterday," were boxed heads on Page One. Inside the Capitol Daily, proposed legislation was tabulated, smaller Congressional stories ran under one-column heads...
...Vol. 1 No. 1 was a small magazine about Reader's Digest size. The Pawnbrokers' Journal got directly to business with the publisher's manifesto which promised that the magazine was to be "a free press for imparting news affecting the industry," and asserted that "proper publicity" would "create a more favorable public opinion of the pawnbrokers' business." Pages of news followed about pawnbrokers' ordinances in various cities, including Berlin, where The Pawnbrokers' Journal correspondent wrote: "Pawn shops, the poor man's banks, are soon to feel the Nazi big stick. . . . Their interest...