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...registered. Founded in the second year of President Jefferson's first term (1801-05), Scovill is the epitome of all good things Yankee. It was started as a brass-button factory. Scovill buttons and Scovill notions were the best stock-in-trade of every 19th Century peddler from Bangor to the Yazoo Delta. Scovill made plates for daguerreotypes. Scovill made the Queen Anne burners for the lamps Rockefeller filled with kerosene. Scovill made time fuses, bullet jackets, shell cases in the War. And today the average U. S. citizen seldom goes from dawn to dusk without using a half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Corporations | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

Lucius F. Billings Scholarship: Richard T. Munce, 4M, of Bangor, Me., A.B. Univ. of Maine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 41 STUDENTS AWARDED SCHOLARSHIP AID FOR MEDICAL SCHOOL STUDY | 10/2/1934 | See Source »

Stranded in Scarboro, Me., when fog grounded a Bangor-Boston airliner, Doris Duke bought a $2 ticket, climbed into a bus. At Portsmouth she had a sandwich and cup of coffee in the railroad station, thanked the driver: "I'm awfully glad you stopped here. I was starving." At Boston she was met by one of her nine cars, a $14,000 Dusenberg. whisked off to Newport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 17, 1934 | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

...Joseph Boorstin, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Donald David Cody, Hartford, Connecticut; Robert Calhoun Creel, Cambridge; Oscar Hirsh Davis, Mount Vernon, New York; Edward Settle Godfrey, 3rd, Albany, New York; Richard Murphey Goodwin, Newcastle, Indiana; Gove Griffith Johnson, Jr., Washington, D. C.; Robert Kaplan, Cambridge; Paul Lachlan MacKendrick, Roslindale; John Arthur Martin, Bangor, Maine; John Barzillai Rackliffe, Newton; John Thomas Sapieuze, Irvington, New Jersey; John William Walsh, Jr., Quincy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Gives 2023 Degrees Today; Lowell Among Those on Honorary List | 6/21/1934 | See Source »

...wage, hour, child labor, and collective bargaining clauses which service industries must still obey. Local groups may write prices back into their local codes provided 85% of their members agree, but no longer will NRA headquarters try to set the price of pressing a pair of pants in Bangor, Dallas and Santa Barbara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Stateless Reception | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

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