Word: publisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeal to your customary fairness to publish these few words as a refutation to what is, I am sure, an outrageous and lying calumny against the memory of a dead soldier. While entertain the utmost abhorrence for his political activities, I am sure that he is innocent of such abominable charges...
During the civil war the paper was in Republican hands, but the founder's son, Don Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, continued to publish a Monarchist A. B. C. in Seville. When Franco took Madrid, Don Juan Ignacio got his paper back and immediately began publishing it in the old way: calling for the restoration of Alfonso. Franco tried to get rid of Luca de Tena by offering him an embassy, but Don Juan Ignacio refused. Last month A. B. C. published a defiant pro-Monarchist editorial. Next thing its readers knew, it had encountered a "shortage of paper...
Nevertheless Ken, appearing biweekly, maintained a nine-month circulation average of some 250,000, but failed to attract any substantial amount of advertising. Then subscriptions began to fall off. Last March, hoping to meet its total monthly circulation guarantees to advertisers, it began to publish four issues a month instead of two. In June Ken tried again to bolster circulation by cutting its price from 25? to 10? a copy. Last week Messrs. Smart and Gingrich announced Ken's end with the issue of August 3. Editor Gingrich wrote to subscribers: "Rather than to employ inflationary methods, the publishers...
...parson as kindly and old-fashioned as best-selling Dr. Arthur Emanuel Hertzler. The Protestant monthly (most successful in the U. S.) opened a $250 contest for 500-word descriptions of rural parsons, received 1,000 entries. Paron Gilbert will write, Christian Herald will print serially, and Harpers will publish in toto next spring Parson Gilbert's life story. Tentative title: Horse Sense and Homelike Religion...
...further proof of their inability to lower prices until huge new audiences are found, publishers point to Modern Age Books, which two years ago set out to publish paperbound original editions at 35? to 50?. Backed by the Richard Storrs Childs fortune, Modern Age advertised heavily, cut costs by using the Rumford Press between printings of Reader's Digest, set up elaborate distribution machinery. Its losses the first year (attributed in part to inexperience) were reported at around $500,000. Since then Modern Age prices have risen nearer the $1 level...