Word: establishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This year, seeking to perfect its service and to establish more satisfactory classifications, Editor & Publisher obtained 1928 lineage statistics for 387 dailies and Sunday papers in 81 cities from Media Records, Inc., an independent audit bureau, instead of accepting statements of individual publishers and agents as in the past. In addition to the Media records, Editor & Publisher compiled figures for 1,019 newspapers, in 684 cities, compiled according to the old practice. The whole story was edited-&-published last week...
...members of the National Women's party to advocate such a bill. Last week, the bill was voted on-and newspapers headlined "Walska's Pet Bill Passes." But it was Walska's pet bill in a deformed state. It gave New York women the right to establish separate legal residences for voting and office holding. For purposes of taxation they still, in the law's eyes, reside with their husbands. Thus was Dame Walska outwangled...
...They ordered transmitted to all League member states the text of a Finnish proposal to establish a credit of $40,000,000, any portion of which might in case of war be extended under League auspices to any state adjudged "the victim of aggression." Thus instead of possessing an army of soldiers to enforce peace, the League would have "an army of dollars." Finns hope that this ambitious proposal will be adopted when the League Assembly meets next September...
...name? Captain Harry Dean. His whole life work? The attempt to establish an Ethiopian Empire, the ending of Inperialism in the Dark Continent...
...Francisco financial circles were last week agitated over the decision of the San Francisco Grain Trade Association to establish a securities trading department. Inasmuch as San Francisco already has a Stock Exchange, a Curb and a Mining Exchange, it might appear that San Franciscans have already ample opportunity to play the market. So rapidly is the main Exchange growing, indeed, that Coast authorities claim it has passed Chicago and ranks as the second largest U. S. board. The Grain Trade Association, nevertheless, despite the opposition of its parent body, the Chamber of Commerce, has decided to organize an additional trading...