Word: midweek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When swart, crinkle-haired Monte Ferris Bourjaily gave up his job as General Manager for United Feature Syndicate six months ago and announced that he was taking over Midweek Pictorial from the New York Times, to give the U. S. its first weekly picture magazine, the publishing profession wondered about two things: Whose money was he using? What would he make of the Times's old photographic byproduct...
...fondest hopes and their presses' best capacity, from 380,000 copies of the first issue to more than a million this week, Monte Bourjaily perceived that he had missed the market that was waiting for a U. S. pictorial weekly. Last week he announced that he would give Midweek Pictorial not death, but a whiff of anesthetic. He would discontinue its publication until such time as he could "give it a new dress and format...
Franklin Roosevelt began his week beside the Hudson River, spent his midweek beside the Potomac River and before the week was out had crossed the South Platte River. Wherever he was, he was in the midst of his campaign for reelection. By accident or otherwise, his visitors at Hyde Park included leaders of groups which are giving him strong backing: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of Manhattan, Monsignor Stephen Connolly of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York* and A. F. of L.'s William Green, who publicly promised that 90% of Labor's votes would be cast...
...Connor, master boilermaker at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, mustered this summer's largest group of retreatants, 135 boilermakers, riveters, mechanics who spent last Independence Day weekend at Malvern. Scheduled for this week is Malvern's first retreat for young boys, to be followed by a midweek retreat for physicians & surgeons. Old retreatants and new keep abreast of Malvern doings by reading the Malvern Mustard Seed, founded by Logan Bullitt, dress-shop owner and cousin of William Christian Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to the U. S. S. R., and of Episcopalian Archdeacon James Fry Bullitt of the Pennsylvania diocese...
...midweek the twister of trouble moved a few miles north to Woonsocket, R. I. (pop. 50,000). Behind a barrage of bricks which left the main street in darkness, some 500 picketers charged the Woonsocket Rayon Co.'s mill just before midnight. Militia advanced on the shadowy mob with fixed bayonets, fired two volleys. Four figures went down in the dark, one to rise no more...