Word: comic strip
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Trash readers, comic-strip fanatics, crossword puzzlers, gum-chewers are satisfied by the noises which may be transmitted to them over the ether. But even in their case, and though they delight in listening in on Presidential speeches, football games, ball games, jazzy funnymen, first aid lectures, bed-time stories and advice to mothers, their interest is thus aroused in their newspapers. They delight in reading what they have heard. Many of Mr. Rose's friends told him that radio has made them read the newspaper accounts more eagerly. More critically...
...first publishers to leave the old school of partisanship and print both sides of a controversy. He inaugurated and pressed the movement which resulted in the Postal Savings System. He published the first comic strip in the country. He developed classified advertising. In addition, it was he who in 1893 helped to reorganize the Associated Press, put Melville E. Stone at its head, and started it towards the place which it holds today. It was entirely fitting that he should be made a Director of the A. P. by acclaim...
...very common type; and the anecdote about the congressman who bowed to his colleague with an "After you, my dear Alphonse,"--just one week after the first appearance of the "Alphonse-and-Gaston" strip illustrates admirably its far-reaching effects. Who is there, indeed, who is not--from time to time if not regularly--exposed to a funny paper? The circulation and wide popularity of the comic supplements have made them powerful factors in American life...