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...country lasts from Friday to Monday. It is a pleasant though dull national custom. But guests from Town last weekend had plenty to talk about. Britain's "dullest election within the memory of living man" had dragged out its serpentine length and finally, suddenly snapped a cracker off its tail. Contrary to expert expectations,* final results snowed Labor with the greatest number of seats in the House of Commons...
...Europe cartoonists have been making sport of the Italo-Papal Treaty & Concordat ever since it was signed (TIME, Feb. 18). The idea that Dictator Mussolini purposes to use the Catholic Church as a sword of conquest was cartooned lately with savage power in Amsterdam's Notenkraker (Nut Cracker), much to the satisfaction of super-Protestant Netherlanders (see cut). Other cartoonists have drawn Pope Pius XI in a Fascist black shirt and Mussolini with the Papal Tiara perched on his rather bald head. The caricatured insinuation is always that His Holiness and His Excellency are reprehensibly in cahoots. Last week...
...company almost immediately created and popularized Uneeda Biscuit, which, though popularly best known as one of the early examples of selling a brand name through advertising, was most important as part of a general movement toward marketing crackers and biscuits in packages instead of in bulk. The name originally proposed for Uneeda Biscuit was Uneeda Cracker; the change being made because "biscuits" seemed to rank "crackers" in popular estimation. National Biscuit is the largest biscuit manufacturer in the world, has never reported a deficit, had a net income of $13,038,000, first nine months of 1928. Its president...
...Crackers. Voracious, United Biscuit Co. last year created a $11,500,000 subsidiary, to absorb small middle-western cracker companies, called it United Biscuit Co. of America. Accretions last week: Ontario Biscuit Co. (two plants in Buffalo, one in Pittsburgh); Hekman Biscuit Co. (Grand Rapids); Quality Biscuit Co. (Milwaukee...
While I was laid up with a fractured limb, my time was quite valueless, and shortly after having told my wife the story of the Northern salesman telling the Southern "cracker" that if he fed his hogs corn they would fatten up in one-half the time, to which the cracker had rejoined, "Aw, what's time to a hog," I happened to ask my wife "what time it was" she replied, "aw what's TIME...