Word: ago
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supreme Court of the United States made it plain more than 50 years ago in the case of Van Auken vs. U.S., 96 U.S. 366, that the issuance of a check for less than a dollar was not an offense under the act unless there was also the element of intent to circulate the same as money...
Several years ago Squibb (always a fairly close corporation) permitted a number of retailers to buy shares of participating preferred stock. The present plan goes much farther. From the retailer's standpoint it works in some such fashion as this...
Surgeon Squibb did not live to see this new experiment. He sold his business some 25 years ago to the late Lowell M. Palmer, potent lime and cement man, who installed his son-in-law, Theodore Weicker, to run it. Later, Mr. Palmer's able son, Carleton H. Palmer, was installed at an early age and became, after the war and his father's death, president of the company. It was under his youthful stimulus that the business began advertising, expanding. Still young (38 years), clean-shaven (Squibb's shaving cream), smiling through white teeth (Squibb...
...said: "We have come here to present the credo that human and national differences can be settled otherwise than by appeal to arms." England's Lord George Allardice Riddell, newspaper bigwig, gave it a seat when he said: "Who of us sitting here today would twelve years ago have predicted that Americans, Frenchmen and Englishmen would meet in Berlin to discuss advertising methods?" France's Dr. Marcel Knecht, secretary of Le Matin, gave it a place on the platform when he spoke on "Advertising and World Peace," suggested that if ever a United States of Europe should...
Much has he traveled, many are the famed people he has met. In Milwaukee, where he has an agency, he headed the Lindbergh reception committee two years ago. The policemen there call him "C. C." Though not feeling well one day in Rome, he won a bet by getting an audience with the Pope on 24-hours' notice. He has hand-shaken Mussolini. He also tells how, slipping into an exclusive London night club, he and Mrs. Younggreen came face to face with Edward of Wales. "My wife," says Mr. Younggreen, "touched the Prince...