Word: cheapness
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...McCormick of Chicago was the prime agitator against printing radio programs. Said he: "Everybody wants cheap advertising but the cheapest advertising anyone can get is to buy an hour on the air and get his program published free in practically all the newspapers in the country. Radio itself is not a good buy, but material in the newspapers about radio programs is a good buy. I suggest that we do not allow radio broadcasters to collect cash for advertising we are giving their clients...
...Washington, to the American Society of Newspaper Editors sharp-tongued little Frank Richardson Kent, political gadfly for the Baltimore Sun, buzzed angrily: "There is more bluff, sham, false pretense, faking, cheap posturing, posing and futility here[in Washington] than any place else. The bulk of the birds who fly about in the Washington aviary are not nearly as beautiful or as good as they pretend-or as the newspapers picture. . . . What they want is to be taken by the newspapermen as seriously as they take themselves. What they don't want is to have a newspaperman go behind...
...Ransom values of U. S. missionaries to Chinese bandits fluctuate widely. Thus the Lutheran Mission at Hankow paid $2,350 plus $1,300 worth of medical supplies last week for Rev. K. N. Tvedt; but Mongolian bandits let Rev. Allie Godfrey Lindholm of the Scandinavian Alliance Mission go cheap for $600. Murdered recently by discharged Chinese servants at Yunnanfu were two Seventh Day Adventlst missionary-wives, Mrs. Victoria Marion Miller & Mrs. Vera Mosebar White...
...that takes the life out of its characterizations, its swift exciting action. Ignoring the actual scenes of ring battles constructed by Author Burnett with so much realism, Director Tod Browning has told the story in spasms of "Oh, yeah?" dialog, within the three walls of various cheap stage sets. The fighter wins his battles so long as he listens to his manager but fails at last because his chorus-girl wife, who is interested in him only for the money he can give her, makes him break with his manager and associate with "a better class of people...
Three gigantic corporations selling cheap and universal products last week issued their 1930 reports, revealed that fortune was not all frowns last year...