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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Asmara, which means "Good Pasture Place," King Vittorio Emmanuele enquired minutely as to doings on the whole plateau, the "Plain of 1,000 Villages." Unfortunately Eritrea is again costing Italy dear. It was run at a loss for the first 30 years, began to break even in 1920, but has again become an expensive luxury for Italy and her ambitious, damn-the-expense Duce. Greatest achievement of Italians in Eritrea is to have introduced cotton culture in valleys previously thought incapable of growing cotton, then to have built capacious cotton gins at Asmara and Massawa. With cotton sunk like other...
...just now the zoo animal market is at a standstill. Many a city faces the problem of how. with humans starving in the streets, to find money to keep its zoo alive. Last week President Williams B. Cadwalader of the Philadelphia Zoological Society addressed to the City Council a plain statement of fact...
...Straus investors. Last week, charged with selling bonds on properties whose taxes were in default and first mortgages that were not first mortgages, the company was thrown into receivership. Special law applied was New York's Martin Act which defines fraud as "all deceitful practices contrary to the plain rules of common honesty." Said Justice Alfred V. Norton in ordering the receivership: "It is tragical, to say the least, to compare the practices as engaged in by the defendants with the glowing representation of good faith set forth in the particular circular issued by the defendants. It appears . . . that...
Officers were not announced. The merger thus far was purely financial. It was planned, for the time being, that each paper should continue to operate independently with no staff changes. Reported exchange of stock: two News shares for one share of Plain Dealer. The News, undistinguished as to format but published in a fine plant, has been called "the tramp that lives in a palace...
With coverage of the morning and evening fields, and with radio stations WHK and WAIU (Columbus) under partial control of the Plain Dealer, Forest City Publishing Co. was expected to have a sound story to sell to advertisers. Further to its advantage is the fact that both journals are controlled by socialite families, no mean business factor in Cleveland. Cleveland's only other newspaper is the Scripps-Howard Press. The Plain Dealer has no competition in the morning field...