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...appeal-sounder, if less realistic, than the way John L. Lewis linked them inseparably at his United Mine Workers' convention (see p. 11). But when reporters started to ask the President if he meant to do something about prices, he said with a wave of his long cigaret holder that the conversation was getting too "iffy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Iffy | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...familiar Manhattan night-club surroundings, and thenceforth the picture proceeds through the high & hackneyed jinks of a machine-made plot. Ethel Merman sings with her usual lid-off verve, like a hotcha stenographer at a house party, and skates a little bit. Ameche and Romero spark like worn-out cigaret lighters. A swing quintet, headed by Raymond Scott, tears into something called the War Dance of the Wooden Indians. And Sonja, hovering on the outer edge, looks on with bland, pudgy good nature, putting in a word here & there in excellent parrot English, and probably wondering, in Norwegian, what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 31, 1938 | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...that office in 1925 and originated $10,000,000 worth of business (70% automotive) in 1928. That interested Mr. Lorimer in Mr. Healy. He was called to the New York office, a few months later to Philadelphia to be Curtis advertising director. Next year the Post began accepting cigaret ads, although the magazine has still to receive its proportionate share of the tobacco business-a circumstance which strengthens its resolve to continue excluding liquor advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Inheritors' Year | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...House. By mutual agreement, this procedure was dispensed with last week in the case of Dr. Don Leon de Bayle, newly appointed Minister from Nicaragua, who arrived at the White House in a business suit, greeted the President in his office instead of the stately Blue Room, puffed a cigaret while the President chatted with him for 15 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: News Blanket | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...weeks ago began distributing black aluminum holders in several sizes at $1 and $2 each. By last week Zeus holders were selling like hot cakes. Most convincing evidence of the gadget's merit lies in the using. Commented Esquire: "After you smoke a pack, take out the cigaret filter and be thankful that what you see is in the filter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Zeus | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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