Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With favorable opinion from more than one top-flight copyright lawyer, the Byron G. Moon Co. plans to promote "theme song print" dresses for women this autumn. From Music Publishers Protective Association Adman Moon obtained exclusive title rights to 300,000 copyrighted songs for 10% of the 1?-per-yd. "copyright fee" which the Moon Co. expects to collect from fabricators to whom it offers its titles. The Moon Co. has applied for 26 patents on the "theme song print" idea...
Soccer is patently out of season but, like its more specaticular Autumn brother football, has commanded a bit of enthusiasm for Spring sessions...
...late autumn of 1886, four Harvard law students who believed that the Law School had "a message for the professional world" met to map strategy for a new venture: a law review. Suggested by a young graduate of Ohio's Oberlin College named John Jay McKelvey, the idea was elaborated by his fellow students Joseph Henry Beale, Julian William Mack and John Henry Wigmore. During the Christmas recess young Mr. McKelvey went to Manhattan and sold his idea to the late great Joseph Hodges Choate, one of the foremost U. S. lawyers of the day, who became the magazine...
...accuses him of sleeping with Miss Quis. This gives her enemies a chance to get back at her by editing their testimony at Niles's trial, but she buys them off by doubling her offers and Niles goes free with a suspended sentence for manslaughter. In the autumn he goes back to propose marriage, but he has been forbidden to live in the town and Miss Quis feels too deeply rooted to leave...
...clothing-Hart Schaffner & Marx. Starting with a banquet, ending with a theatre party, the celebration provided a happy opportunity for more than 200 big retailers from all sections to mix fun with business, for the occasion coincided with the opening of the buying season for autumn lines. Much was the talk of rising prices in both woolen goods (up 33%) and tailored product (up 10% to 15%). Serious were the discussions of trends in colors (gayer) and styles (toward draped models). Hart Schaffner & Marx's Golden Jubilee was pushed for its full promotional value but it also had genuine...