Word: adding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sponsor church advertising, sometimes using art work and canned sermonets or thoughts-for-the-week. As chairman of trustees of Atlantic City's Olivet Presbyterian Church, it occurred to Adman Peifer last year that such advertising is dull indeed. He asked local clergymen to try their hands at ad-writing, soon, concluded that "their stuff just didn't have the right slant. They couldn't write a good ad." Last January Adman Peifer, 51 and hardworking, began writing institutional ads for the churches of Atlantic City, turning out swift-moving, unpretentious copy about people who play hooky...
...Florida several years ago the Legislature, by constitutional amendment designed to attract new industries to the State, exempted a list of manufacturers from ad valorem taxes, State, county or local, for 15 years after establishment. Included were manufacturers of "steel vessels." Later Florida's Supreme Court ruled that tin can manufacturers were exempt because a tin can is a steel vessel tincoated. Last week County Attorney J. W. Cone of Tampa ruled the Tampa Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. not exempt from taxation because their RFC-financed, 10,000-ton drydock is not exclusively or chiefly used for the manufacture...
...body packed with lawyers, nothing is more fun than a brisk game of splitting verbal hairs. One of the first to take up Senator Borah's challenge was Arizona's bland Senator Ashurst, who attempted to obliterate the Borah argument by a reductio ad absurdum which resulted in dialog that sounded like the Mad Hatter's tea party...
...less than 24 hours "The fleet is all lit up!" had become the joyful cry of all Britain. Undergraduates, shopgirls, peers, clubmen and pub-crawlers were repeating, "The fleet is all lit up!" ad nauseam...
...physician makes a grievous mistake in his diagnosis, the patient dies, and . . . the undertaker comes into his own. When [the lawyer] makes a mistake he asks for ... [his fee], demands a new trial, and so proceeds ad infinitum...