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...seizes my copy of TIME. And this, despite a copy which awaits him at home. Has a poor man no defense against such predatory action? Can I appeal to the U. S. Government? Can I appeal to the Editors of TIME to institute an advertising campaign (a la mode Buick Motors) advocating two-TiME families? If solicited, I am sure Mr. Rossheim would be proud to be the original two-TiMER. ROBERT S. THANHAUSER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 15, 1932 | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

...tended to lessen the contrast between rich and poor" is the comforting assertion of the hunger stricken author of the editorial. Doubtless he has had the insufferable experience of being deprived of his caviar for breakfast or perhaps this year can have as his extra car only a Buick instead of a Packard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Through Red Colored Glasses | 5/3/1932 | See Source »

...Melton from Ocala, Fla. In 1929, shortly before the quartet took its first European tour, young James Melton married Marjorie Louise McClure, daughter of Novelist Marjorie Barkley McClure. The Revelers earn their big money now broadcasting for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. over a nation-wide hookup. They broadcast for Buick too, over a midwestern hookup. With a substantial Coca-Cola contract be sides, James Melton will make an easy $100,000 this year. It enables him to live in an expensive penthouse apartment, keep a sailing yacht on the Hudson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Earnest Reveler | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

...house of "Mr. John Q. Averageman who comes to the city to work every day, who, around his detached house, has a little land on which he grows a tomato and a nasturtium and who faithfully keeps up with the nearly latest model of refrigerator, radio, and Buick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Homes of the Future | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...Just before the "golden" coins appeared, a Rumanian priest decided to buy the used Buick of the representative in Rumania of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. A bargain was struck. That evening the priest appeared, riding in a two-horse carriage. He had with him twelve huge gunny sacks stuffed to bursting with 20-lei Rumanian bills. It took until 2 a. m. to count them?after which the priest drove off in his Buick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gold's Week | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

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