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...year ago the cotton market took a terrific one-day tumble. Prices dropped nearly $10 per bale in a few hours. Among the many to whom the "March 11th" break caused deep anguish was South Carolina's Senator Ellison DuRant Smith, self-appointed chamberlain to King Cotton. Forthwith, "Cotton Ed" Smith started an investigation which did not make the front page until a year later...
...John Steven McGroarty had just read a statement by Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend crying a pox on efforts to lure California Townsendites from Republicanism to Democracy, elect a Townsend slate of delegates to the Democratic convention with Representative McGroarty as their Presidential favorite (TIME, April 6). Asserting forthwith that Dr. Townsend had deserted his plan to finance $200-per-month pensions by a transactions tax and now proposed to issue billions of dollars worth of tax-exempt bonds, the angry Poet Laureate called on "millions of Townsendites" to repudiate their original leader...
Taking the cue from Dr. Rice, the huge, proletarian New York Daily News forthwith launched an editorial campaign. It was criminal and foolish, said the News, to withhold from the public a full & free knowledge of venereal prophylaxis. The News soon discovered that the subject was alive with reader interest. Many of the paper's 2,900,000 purchasers wrote in to praise it for frankness and public spirit. Others denounced the paper for encouraging immorality. And a few News readers told how they had contracted tragic ailments for want of proper information...
...protest when Jewish musicians were exiled from Germany, that the complaint he finally did register was either softened or withdrawn. Same day that he received his Philharmonic appointment Furtwängler was reinstated as director of the Prussian State Opera. A group of New Yorkers under Ira A. Hirschmann forthwith canceled their Philharmonic subscriptions, threatened to stir up a general boycott...
Last week Scripps-Howard's vigorous New York World-Telegram surprised its readers and other Manhattan newspaper publishers by giving only two days' notice that it would forthwith begin publishing a six section, 5? Saturday edition, with six pages of colored rotogravure, eight pages of comics. The Journal, afternoon Hearst-paper which has hitherto had New York's 5? Saturday field to itself, refused to touch a full-page World-Telegram advertisement of the new edition. But $4,100 looked good to Publisher Edmond David Coblentz of Hearst's morning American. Fifteen hundred copies...