Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope the New York World's Fair of 1939 may become the occasion for the birth of the American Poster. . . . Poster production in Europe [see TIME, Feb. 28 for posters in Spain] is decades ahead of poster development in this country, simply because European advertisers have learned the commercial benefits of being outrageously noncommercial in poster art. . . . We have nearly all of our posters drawn by "pretty girl" artists and by uninspired hack commercial artists who draw the same banal signs for everybody and for everything...
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...World Court in 1935, Western Union and Postal Telegraph handled 200,000 telegrams to Congressmen. Last week, result of his exhortation fell just short of that record, but it was second to nothing else in the history of U. S. communications. For hours after his speech, anyone in New York City who hoped to send a telegram had to wait at least an hour because the whole facilities of both Postal Telegraph and Western Union were being used by Father Coughlin's responsive listeners. By the next day, when the time came for a vote on recommittal, no fewer...
After five months spent covering nearly all of Europe, able New York Times-woman Anne O'Hare McCormick last week returned to the U. S. keynoting "the imperturbable optimism of Great Britain, which worries less than any nation on earth." That plenty of Britons were deliberately taking a humorous view of the European Crisis was a major fact in London last week. In the House of Commons, however, more seriousness was in evidence. In awful dignity the Prime Minister arose and spoke. "I do not deny," came Neville Chamberlain's solemn admission, "that my original belief...
...country in which patients may be reasonably assured of complete examination, accurate diagnosis and "the best treatment that can be offered." If a local doctor or hospital does not know the address of the nearest clinic, "write to the American Society for the Control of Cancer, Rockefeller Center, New York City...