Word: digested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another newcomer to the technical press which found its way to the desks and laps of advertising men this week. Minutely calculated to appeal to 2,500 owners and executives of picked advertising agencies and officials of industries advertising nationally, Advertisers & Advertising Agents presented in its first issue a digest boiled down from "trade papers . . . statistics from Washington, Harvard and other bureaus of business research...
...goes the old proverb, but in many instances it is nearly impossible to determine just what the voice of the people is demanding. In this connection, nothing has been more difficult of late than ascertaining the attitude of the American people on the prohibition question. Now the Literary Digest, with cool calculation, is preparing to sound the country by means of a straw vote on the question that has been so bitterly argued pro and con for the past ten years...
...substance. (1) Are you in favor of enforcement of the present prohibition law? (2) Do you favor modification of the Volstead Act? (3) Do you favor the repeal of the eighteenth amendment? The results of this straw vote must be taken seriously, for the results from previous Literary Digest ballots prior to presidential elections have been amazingly accurate...
President Wilfred John Funk of Funk & Wagnalls (publishers of the Literary Digest) had a composition accepted by The New Yorker (weekly smartchart). The composition...
...Harvard President's annual report of the progress of affairs at Cambridge has come to assume the importance commonly attached to state papers like the President's message to Congress or a governor's inaugural address. Not only do the Boston newspapers carry a complete digest of it and many long quotations from it, but the leading journals of New York and other cities also treat it as news of national significance. And such it is, for Harvard is in most respects the country's leading university, and what is done in Cambridge today may be done in a hundred...