Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While members of the American National Livestock Association were parching in El Paso last week another convention in Chicago was setting records for liquor consumption, big buying and fun. This was fitting, for the National Association of Coin Operated Machine Manufacturers is most precisely in the fun business. In the...
Slot machines originated in penny arcades and ended up in gangland. Chicago's boisterous Mills Brothers made a $10,000,000 business of their Mills Novelty Co. partly by making slot machines which became the instruments of a $150,000,000 racket (TIME, May 13. 1935). Since U. S...
Mr. Kraska assures us in his advance circular that Fraulein Bergner has acted the part of Rosalind in the legitimate theatre a tremendous number of times. If this is true it is just unfortunate. There was nothing, well, almost nothing, that Miss Bergner could do to spoil one's enjoyment...
"The profession has become popularly characterized by that minority portion of its membership which has consistently taken a hostile stand to proposals and legislation of a forward-looking character . . . [concerning] child labor, reasonable business regulation, security and labor." "[The minority's concern for liberty has been property." secondary to...
Last week in Manhattan more than 500 legalists, old and young, liberal and radical, gathered in the stately chambers of the New York Bar Association to elect temporary local Guild officers. Looking down from their gilt frames, first U. S. Chief Justice John Jay and 19 past presidents of the...