Word: publishers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alarmed at the increased importation into Italy of foreign cars, chiefly from the U. S., the Royal Italian Automobile Club, Fascist-governed, announced that in future they would publish in all Fascist newspapers the names and addresses of all Italians who purchase foreign motor cars, "A proscription list for bad Italians who betray their most elementary duties to the nation out of a spirit of automobilistic snobbery...
...graduate and president.* "Smiling Bill" Vogt is a hulky six-footer with a tongue glib to romanticize about the outdoors. Years ago he used to fish a lot and yarn a lot. Now he fishes for spells and lectures for hours. He has written a book, Bait-Casting, published by Longmans, Green in ordinary and de luxe binding. He is about to publish another. "Smiling Bill" Vogt is one of those rare men who have almost precise coordination of sight, thought and movement. He has a powerful wrist and a leathery thumb which let him dispense with reel brakes, drags...
Smalltown newspapers are fun to publish. Along with the small town and county and state news there sometimes comes a chance to champion a cause, to cry a crime, to excite a people, usually a sluggish, smalltownish people. Such a chance came less than a month ago to "the youngest newspaper staff in the country" (not a man over 32)-the staff of the Cherokee Times of Gaffney, a hilltown on the northern edge of South Carolina with a population of 10,000 (including Negroes...
That was when the Cherokee Times stepped in. Commercially it seemed a good bet to get permission, quickly granted, to publish Scarlet Sister Mary serially. Intellectually it was exciting for Editor-Publisher George B. Lay, 32, and his two young associates-Thomas Freeman and W. Wells Alexander, each 22-to awaken Gaffney from what they, as college men, called its "uncultured daze.'' Moreover, there was, as Mrs. Peterkin said in her letter to Mr. Lay, the possibility that Librarian Pearson had eaten something disagreeable the morning she proscribed the book...
...that I may publish...