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...years ago Sugarman Frank Clifford Lowry was elected president of National Biscuit Co. Roy Everett Tomlinson was chairman. Last week Chairman Tomlinson stepped down to the presidency, President Lowry stepped down to a vice-presidency. Asked the reason, President Tomlinson said: "Throughout the company we are carrying double or combining jobs wherever possible to save overhead. In this spirit the offices of chairman and president have been combined." Marius Boeger, vice chairman of Hamburg-American Line, was elected chairman, succeeding the late Dr. Wilhehn Cuno (TIME...
...York, Lexicographer Frank Horace Vizetelly announced he had granted official recognition in his Standard Dictionary to the initial-composed "protogram" and the telescope word, both popular in Russia. A protogram: NEP (New Economic Policy). A telescope word: Nabisco (National Biscuit Co.). Commented Dr. Vizetelly: "The newly-liberated Russian people have the same love for big words which distinguishes all civilizations in the formative state. They give institutions magniloquent titles, then find it is too much trouble to pronounce them...
...enough water to cover. Measure liquid used. Cover closely and cook in a slow oven of 350° F. for two hours. For every cupful of liquid used stir in one tbsp. flour mixed in an equal amount of cold water. Cook 15 min. longer. A baking powder biscuit crust may be put on the casserole after the thickening is added. If this is done, raise the temperature to 450° F. for about 15 min. to bake the crust. Serves...
...choice, a broad churchman who is nonetheless Catholic enough to suit Bishop Manning who immediately confirmed the appointment. He is Rev. Dr. Frederic Sydney Fleming, 46, a slender, six-foot, bespectacled clergyman who began his career as a baker's assistant, became assistant to the president of big National Biscuit Co. before studying for the ministry at Western Theological Seminary and Nashotah House (Anglo-Catholic) in Wisconsin...
Here, according to billboards, is "Conan Doyle's Immortal Story Masterfully Told." Here, "Masterfully," is Clive Brook at grips with modern gangsters, a Sherlock Holmes in love, a Sherlock Holmes who knows the cute trick of discovering biscuit crumbs on people's waistcoats, who pronounces "elementary" with the grand air, who jumps out of high balconies onto villainous necks, who wields acetylene torches and shoots to kill. This is no Sherlock Holmes, this is Hollywood's "Masterful" attempt to shatter an illusion...