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Word: brownness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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That was clear enough. No one had any doubt that "a naval expert" was William B. Shearer and "three shipbuilding corporations" were Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., American Brown Boveri Corp., Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., whom Mr. Shearer has sued for a balance of $257,655 on a claim of $308,885 for propaganda services (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover v. Influences | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Mounting postal deficits have caused President Hoover much anxiety. This year's loss is estimated at $100,000,000. The President instructed Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown to discover the causes of, to devise remedies for, these deficits (TIME, July 22). An audit of the scrambled costs of maintaining the different classes of postal service is now in progress. Last week Postmaster General Brown prepared to call into an October conference the big users of first-class mail, particularly direct-mail advertisers. Quickly spread the firm belief that the Department would recommend as a deficit-extinguisher an increase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Up Bobs Barlow | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...blacks were maimed in the city's worst race riot. Alfonse Capone came from New York with a scar on his face. Dean O'Banion, onetime acolyte, draft-dodger, said "Hello" to two strangers, fell slug-riddled in his flower shop. Mayor Thompson took some friends down the brown Mississippi, washed water over levees, was shot at. "Just yesterday" Capone was jailed in Philadelphia. "For God's sake," says Chicago, "what does it matter who sits in the City Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Garlic Creek | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Together the Brothers Morrow have bought the 2-in-1 Polish Co. in Canada (now 2-in-1 Shinola Bixby Corp., subsidiary of Gold Dust), Christie Brown Co. ( Canadian cracker makers), Consolidated Bakeries (also Canadian), American Linseed Co.. Standard Milling Co. They had to fight for control of the last two, but as Elder Brother George remarked last week: "We are like Tunney. We have never been beaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Two Morrows | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...describes the cannonball express to hell. Sometimes local color dams up the story, but mostly, in spite of the temptation of spirituals, it is under control. Vidor's skill as a picturemaker is enough alone to make Hallelujah one of the best films of the year. Best actress : brown-yellow Nina Mae McKinney. not yet 18, who became a Manhattan chorus girl at 12, was picked by Vidor from the chorus of Blackbirds. Best tune: "The End of the Road" by Irving Berlin. Most dramatic sequence: Hot Shot (William Fountaine) running through the swamp when Preacher Zeke comes after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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