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...Occident today must better exemplify to the Orient the Christianity it professes. It must deal justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God; it must produce a cleaner journalism, less concerned with details of crime and more with the essence of the Christ-spirit so evident in our philanthropies and in the growth of our service and social conscience in community, state and Nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: In Detroit | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...Coolidge looked about her with interest. "What a fine new vacuum cleaner! And how fresh the woodwork looks with its new paint. Those two harmonizing blue colonial wallpapers in our bedrooms are really very well chosen. Whatever is left of the $50,000 for renovation will buy a new rug for the Green Room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge s Week: Sep. 21, 1925 | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

...York City) 7,000,000 two-legged animals penned in an evil smelling cage . . . streets as unkempt as a Russian steppe . . . rubbish, waste paper, cigar butts, ends of lumber and general messiness. One glance and you know no master hand directs . . . Good Lord! anywhere in Moscow it is cleaner. I was choked by the fumes of gasoline . . . No wonder each room in the big hotels has a bath when the people must live in such an atmosphere!!! . . . New York, a stench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Different World | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

Back in 1909, one Fred Wardell became a "one-horse distributor" of electric vacuum cleaners. While he himself canvassed, his sole employee-a girl stenographer-ran his entire office. After four years of this, he proceeded to buy out the manufacturing end of the business, and acquired five men to help him run it. During the dark days of 1920, these five stuck to Wardell and his vacuum cleaners. Today, the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co., Detroit, is the largest manufacturing concern of its type in the world, with 250,000 shares of stock outstanding and no bonds or preferred ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Eureka | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

Purer water, increasing the supply to a billion gallons a day; better police and fire protection; cleaner streets; improved health conditions--Contributing to New York City's conspicuous place among the safest and healthiest cities in the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE MEN SHOULD ENTER POLITICS IN SPITE OF ALL ITS DRAWBACKS SAYS HYLAN | 5/7/1925 | See Source »

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