Word: credited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advertisement inside the back cover of the issue for July 16, TIME highly, justly praises itself. However, the example given of TIME'S style of reporting does the newsmagazine no great credit. Thus, as reporting the Boston Massacre...
Back of the strikers are a united press and a supporting clergy. Landlords accept the total loss of rents without grumbling. In spite of hard times, merchants keep on extending credit, postponing payments on instalments. Riots and unemployment are the bugaboos of most fire and police departments, but New Bedford firemen and policemen contribute to the strikers' funds from their own pockets...
...chief achievement to the credit of the session of Parliament just closed is the passing of the famed "Votes for Flappers" bill, seldom heard of by its correct title "The Equal Franchise Act." Thus the vote is given to females between 21 and 30,* elder females having been enfranchised...
...limit and not a thing of my own except that which is due me at the office. If that had come in when it was due this could have been avoided. My only message to the dentists with whom I have worked is to work for cash only; credit will only bring trouble...
...name at a local bank, using the good check as a first deposit. This done, she could go shopping. For each article she buys, she gives a check, double the purchase price, asking for the balance in cash. Cautious department stores do not accept checks without investigation. Credit men telephone the bank, discover Miss T- has a $300 balance, apologize profusely and urge her to open a charge account. Graciously, she consents, moves on to another store to repeat the performance. But at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon, before the array of checks can reach the bank...