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...years, for instance, during which time they will be working in factories, stores, plants, mines, offices, etcetera. When I say live there, I mean lead the life that the ordinary man in the street leads, unknown to the American Government, lost in the mob, riding in streetcars, having a Coca-Cola at the counter of some botica, getting into traffic jams, eating hot dogs at the races and getting very little sleep if they should live in New York City where the horns of automobiles make it so tough for one's nerves. No gorgeous Cadillacs or Packards waiting...
Sirs: [The death notice of Bishop Warren Akin Candler-brother of the late Coca-Cola king, Asa Griggs Candler-TIME, Oct. 6] reminds me of an incident of the early "Gay Nineties"* in which Dr. Candler figured before he became a bishop, [about the time] Coca-Cola was invented...
Died. Bishop Warren Akin Candler, 84, oratorical champion of Southern Methodism for over 50 years; brother of the late Coca-Cola king, Asa Griggs Candler; in Atlanta. With a $1,000,000 gift from Brother Asa, he expanded little Emory College into a university, was its chancellor from 1914 to 1921. As active Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, from 1898 to 1934, he was a leader in the fight against unification of his own church with Methodist Protestants and Northern Methodists, commented when unification won in 1939: "It's done now. I'm going to keep...
Newest member of the Harvard tweedy set, with a special predilection for gin, scotch, or possibly Coca-Cola if a sufficient amount of rum is added, is a South American Coati-Mondi recently brought back from the jungles of Peru...
Gentle, grey-maned Senator Walter F. George was beaming. By sheer charm and persuasion he had talked the committee into dropping a $22,600,000 House-approved levy on soft drinks-a hard blow, had it passed, for the State of Georgia, home of Chairman George and Coca-Cola. Other changes: > Income-tax exemptions were lowered to $750 for single taxpayers, $1,500 for married couples, creating some 2,272,000 new taxpayers. But of the estimated $305,000,000 from lower exemptions, they will pay only about...