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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smith's prime claim to candidacy is his claim that he could carry his own New York, which has 45 votes. So that is the next factor to add. The Solid South plus New York would make 159 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Job | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

Enthusiastic critics have called Miss Helen Wills the greatest female tennis player in the world. Such critics forget to add to their definition two defining terms -"amateur," for Mile. Lenglen, though she takes money for playing, still plays well; and "singles," for no matter what Miss Wills may do when she is by herself on one side of a net she has never been very brilliant when there was anyone to help her. Last week in the Wightman Cup matches at Wimbledon Miss Wills demonstrated once more the need for these defining terms. In the singles she beat Mrs. Watson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wightman Cup | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...with little effort expended upon distinguishing the sweet from the sour. The man behind the book is more willing to learn than ever before, but the man behind the desk is often too busy to teach. The professor having absorbed facts throughout his comfortable career, is content to add to his achievements in the seclusion of a library stall. There he may dissect at his ease some trifling bit of antiquarianism to satisfy the cry of modern educationists for research, and more research! And so the instructor, who alone should be best fitted for presenting facts to his students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clase Parts, by Eliot, Jones, and Reel, Cover Wide Field at Commencement Ceremonies | 6/21/1928 | See Source »

...Fairbank Co. Those cleansers are Gold Dust, Fairy Soap, Sunny Monday Soap and like products. To them President Morrow late in 1925 added by purchase the shoe polishes of the F. F. Dalley Corp.-Shinola, Two-in-One, Bixby brands. Early this year he was negotiating to add Ball fruit jars and Crosse & Blackwell's good English jams, marmalades and other dainties. The Gold Dust Corp. stock is worth at current quotations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gold Dust & Best Foods | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...this that some organizations keep original sales forces intact and separate. The Chrysler-(Dodge)-Dillon deal of last fortnight (TIME, June 11) is such a case. But with Gold Dust and American Linseed the problem is relatively simple. Both sell to the same grocers-cleansers and foods. Salesmen need add only a few loose leaves to their portfolios. But there are apt to be fewer salesmen than the two companies now separately employ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gold Dust & Best Foods | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

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