Word: sheets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smartest. For a while after Dave Stern went to Philadelphia he had little competition from the Record's, smug old rivals. A working newspaperman himself, he made the Record a newsman's sheet, gave it a metropolitan flair that no other paper had. He picked Roosevelt long before Chicago, shrewdly identified himself with New Deal liberalism, did more than any other man to break the Republican stranglehold on Pennsylvania and to sell civic decency to Philadelphia. He has run the Record'?, circulation from 90,000 to 218,000. His men work in a converted loft building...
...Councilman George Backer and return to Philadelphia and the Record. Milked by the Post, the Record last year lost $40,000 (which was canceled by the Camden Stern-papers' $42,000 profit) and Dave Stern could no longer afford to use it to support his ailing New York sheet. Currently he is the most harassed publisher in Philadelphia, and the man responsible for his harassment is Moses Louis Annenberg...
After you have taken the test, you can check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of this test, entering number of your right answers as your score on your answer sheet. On previous TIME Test College Students score have averaged 58; TIME Reader scores have averaged...
DIRECTIONS For each of the questions five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the line at the right of the number of the question on the answer sheet...
...think of the United States as one vast Coney Island, peopled with gunmen's molls, Dead End kids, corn-fed blondes, tap-dancing Negroes, G-Men, bubble dancers, tough babies, flagpole sitters, Kentucky moonshiners, Irish cops and co-eds with voices like nails on a sheet of glass. This is rather like confining one's study of English life to the side shows at the circus...