Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called Vine-Glo ("Just Pull the Bung") for urban vintners (TIME, Nov. 24). A client is supplied with a keg of nonalcoholic concentrate which Vine-Glo agents put down in his cellar. They dilute it, tend it for 60 days. By then it becomes wine of about 15% alcoholic content. Prohibition Director Woodcock explained again & again that he could prosecute only if an intent to violate the law was shown and intent was very hard to prove...
Like the Tribune, the American Hebrew was partially subsidized by race-proud Jews. Its advertising revenue nearly met expenses until the current Depression. As advertising fell off, the editorial content grew sloppy. Publisher Bernard Edelhertz worried himself ill over the problem, went into his closet and hanged himself (TIME, July 27). The magazine's president & editor, Isaac Landman, editor-in-chief of the forthcoming Jewish Encyclopedia, already had accepted a call to return to the rabbinate. Who, then, could take the American Hebrew's burden upon his shoulders and lead it out of its wilderness? He should...
...content with merely expressing his opinion of the Star, Tycoon Doherty has his attorneys file a libel suit against it for $12,000,000 damages on six articles. The tenor of the challenged articles was that Mr. Doherty collects 1¾% of the gross revenue of his companies for his technical advice and management. In addition to denying this, Mr. Doherty claimed the articles had been printed to hurt his business in order that the Star's management might promote a competing pipeline. Publisher Longan retorted: "If it were true ... it would be no one's damned business...
Died. Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock, 87, famed agricultural chemist; of heart disease; in Madison, Wis. His greatest contribution: the standard means of determining the butterfat content of milk. He refused to patent or exploit his discovery, saying "no one man was large enough to own a key to dairy prosperity." Last year he received the Capper publications' award for distinguished service to agriculture...
...admixture of good buffoonery, high audacity, bad temper and bad taste appeared on newsstands this week in the form of Editor Norman Anthony's Ballyhoo, ballyhooed as the funny magazine devoid of advertising (TIME, May n). Much of the content was devoted to burlesques of familiar advertising campaigns. Therein lay most of its humor, most of its audacity, some of its bad taste. Examples...