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...bootleggers aren't au fait perse--? Such a pleasant vagary as this just goes to prove that even the Supreme Court, like the sorrowful heroes of Aeschylus, may have a slight dent in its armour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SULLIED ERMINE | 1/25/1930 | See Source »

...Armour & Co. (Chief 1929 trouble: underestimation of hog supply): $9,810,518 as against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 1929 Returns | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...Tommy Armour, Detroit professional golfer, onetime (1927) U. S. Open Champion, played 18 holes in 59 strokes and won an invitation tournament over Cinemactor Harold Lloyd's miniature golf course, at Beverly Hills, Calif. The course is difficult for amateurs, the holes criss-cross each other and an artificial, pump-driven stream. Other features of the Harold Lloyd estate: an oldtime English barbecue, complete with kitchen, shelter and roasting pit; a swimming pool; four tennis courts; twelve handball courts; a miniature four-room house for Daughter Gloria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 20, 1930 | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

While terrified Düsseldorf continued in acutest suspense a rumor leaked out that the supershrewd detectives were also sending out "decoy victims" - pretty young women in suits of light, flexible armour with padded steel under their hats, alert guards in the offing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Crime Club | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

...powerful soap manufacturers who control about 80% of U. S. production, whose publicizing subsidiary, Cleanliness Institute, during the past three years contributed $3,000,000 for "information useful to the public," laboratory work and market study. Its executives represent such soap makers as Procter & Gamble. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Armour & Co., Lever Bros. In no way is the Association a monopoly, for its members compete hotly for the business brought them by this method of collective advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cleanliness Institute | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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