Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without holding a brief for or against the Brothers Goldblatt as a native Chicagoan, I cannot help but resent the implication that a name like Goldblatt will per se besmirch the beauty of State St., and dip its standards into the mud. I would like to point out to you gentlemen of limitless knowledge and particularly to your erudite Chicago editorial staff that such distinguished Anglo-Saxon and Norman names as Marshall Field and Carson, Pine Scott & Co.. rather than symbolizing State St., Chicago, have long stood and do stand forlornly alone amid the non-Aryan hosts...
...more subtle job is being done by N. W. Aver & Son. Inc. On its own hook this Philadelphia advertising agency is running every week on the cover of Printers' Ink a brief story about the accomplishments of some industry ("Mother Is On A Five-Day Week"), the importance of some business practice ("Joe And The Corporate Surplus"), the value of industrial research ("White Rats And Healthy Babies"). The copy goes in for such facts as that U. S. citizens have added more than two inches to their stature in the past 50 years, that it requires about...
...brief handwritten autobiography of the noted "dime novelist," Boratio Alger '52, written while he was a student, is also on exhibit in Widener with a collection of historic relics of the past century of student life at Harvard...
...brief space of less than a week Coach McDonald faces the overwhelming task of patching a lineup from 60 entirely unfamiliar faces and pairs of feet...
...create five million jobs, stop unemployment and beautify the country as well. For arguments about costs he has shrewd answers, pointing out that Boulder Dam, by preventing a flood in 1935. saved the Imperial Valley at least $10,000,000. Holding that confidence is the basic need, he gives brief, effective accounts of projects in Sweden, Russia, England. Readers may be dazzled by Stuart Chase's bold vision of a happier future for their country but they are more likely to close Rich Land, Poor Land, with an uneasy feeling that Author Chase has pulled some white rabbits...