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...these demands, ideas and implications the radio commission could not digest immediately. It adjourned for bureaucratic, secret, nonetheless conscientious, deliberation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Communications | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Four years ago the Literary Digest, opinion-collecting weekly, circularized millions of citizens, soliciting subscriptions and inquiring for whom they intended to vote for President. The result was a 99.44% accurate preview of the official electoral vote later cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Straws | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

Last fortnight, grey-haired Robert J. Cuddihy, the amiable, able, Irish, Roman Catholic publisher-manager of the Digest, announced a bigger & better "straw vote." Postcard ballots went "sifting silently through the mails" to some 19,600,000 names and addresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Straws | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

Then he showed me this advertisement: "Readers of the Literary Digest will receive the fastest service of any national magazine-within 8 days after going to press we deliver everywhere from Maine to California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Maybe the Literary Digest don't know that you exist yet. Maybe they don't think you are a national magazine. Maybe they are quibblers and in this way recognize TIME as the national newsmagazine and themselves as an ordinary national periodical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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