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...industrialists" might be formed to match the prestige of the Wet du Ponts and John Jacob Raskob. He published a list of 25 businessmen "determined that the Dry cause shall have the fair trial which it merits." Most notable name on this list: H. W. Hoover (no kin), vacuum cleaner man of North Canton, Ohio. Other names: Senator Arthur Capper, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, Admiral William S. Sims, Horace Taft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Drys Gird | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

...Kansas City, Mo., the Rev. Carl C. Walker, operator of a prayer tabernacle, left town without paying his divorced wife's alimony. Mrs. Walker went to the tabernacle, seized 193 chairs, a vacuum cleaner, an electric refrigerator, a grand piano, a xylophone, a shotgun, offered them for sale. The congregation paid the alimony to get the church furnishings back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Backers | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

...many potent clients- among them Radio Corp., Timken Oil Burner, Studebaker Motors, Westinghouse Electric, Cleveland Tractor, Hoover Vacuum Cleaner, Detroit Aircraft, Koken Barber Supply, Hudson Motors, Majestic Radio, Petroleum Heat & Power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Instalment Business | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, Fred Doboriewitz, 24, dry cleaner, left his open ammonia cleaning tank to telephone his sweetheart for forgiveness of a quarrel. She was unrelentant. He shuffled broken-hearted back to his ammonia tank to weep against its edge. The fumes asphyxiated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 23, 1930 | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...Church-Cleaner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 16, 1930 | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

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