Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...common knowledge in Washington that many a rich Jew, especially in the cinema industry, yearns for political connections and preferment. To Mayor Walker of New York City it was "surprising," however, when he learned that Joseph M. Schenck, husband of Cinemactress Norma Talmadge and president of United Artists Corp. was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, a Hooverite (TIME, June 11.) Vice President Louis B. Mayer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. was there...
...from digging up fresh dirt in Georgia, to hear some old dirt in Washington. Postmaster General New read letters and affidavits showing how postmasterships had been sold and levied upon in the Wilson days of 1917-20. The system, he implied, dated back to Civil War times and was common to both parties. Democrats demurred that the campaign contribution law had been changed since Wilson days and that the Georgia Republican State Central Committee had refined the illegal sale of patronage to the point of card-indexing its customers. Mr. New was requested to produce more information. The investigation continued...
Babies come crying into the world. They cry for air but in many cases the tears are gummy with pus, the little eyelids swollen and glued together. "Babies sore eyes" (ophthalmia neonatorum) is a common complaint. Gonorrhoeal infection is almost always the cause; contracted from the mother, or in an occasional instance from infected hands or articles. Total blindness is often the result, how often is indicated by the 25% of all blindness in children ascribed to it. This dark, tragic disease may be entirely prevented by therapy during pregnancy; may even be entirely cured, after having been contracted...
Crackers, Cookies. National Biscuit Co., world's largest biscuit makers, announced that plans were virtually completed for it to acquire control of Christie, Brown & Co., Ltd., biggest makers of crackers, cookies, cakes and puddings in Canada. Basis of the deal: one share of National Biscuit common stock for two shares of Christie, Brown common...
Last week, Howard Elliott died. He lived just long enough to see the N.Y., N. H. & H. pay a dividend on its common stock, the first in 15 years, a direct result of his four years (1913-17) of reorganization. But the most tangible evidence of his labor lies in the Northwest. First as president, then as chairman of the board of the Northern Pacific, he watched, encouraged, hastened the development of a vast territory...