Word: elmo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Elmo Lincoln (real name: Otto Elmo Linkenheit), cinemactor (Tarzan of the Apes); by Mrs. Lincoln. Grounds: another woman...
...Federal Farm Board: James Clifton Stone of Lexington, Ky. (tobacco), Carl Williams of Oklahoma City (cotton), C. B. Denman of Farmington. Mo. (live stock). He hoped he would get three others, to whom he had publicly offered appointments: Alexander Legge of Chicago (business), W. S. Moscrip of St. Elmo, Minn, (dairy), Charles C. Teague of Los Angeles (fruit). The President was having difficulty finding No. 1 men for his board. An able No. 2 man might make his mark on the board but the President knew the board required a No. 1 on it to make its mark. President...
Three-fold was Editor Kendall s attack on testimonials. First he got an article from Earnest Elmo Calkins, famed literary critic and exponent of advertising.* Under the title: "Lucky Strikes Save Florida's Crew," Mr. Calkins deplored the fact that Hero George Fried had hardly docked before he was endorsing Lucky Strikes via radio and newspapers. It is Mr. Calkins' agency that has created the famed Fire Demon in the Hartford Fire Insurance advertisements; to the testimonial demon Mr. Calkins is equally antagonistic...
...EARNEST ELMO CALKINS, President, Calkins & Holden: " TIME Newsmagazine, original, individual, independent, sometimes cocky but never dull, copying no other pattern but creating its own form and a language to express its unhackneyed viewpoint will always remain a monument to Briton Hadden's uncompleted life no matter what heights it eventually attains, as he had the vision and courage to offer us a new attitude toward the day's news. We could better spare an older and less vivid editor...
...Newark the grand jury indicted Rev. Elmo L. Bateman, pastor of the First Christian church of Maplewood. The indictment specifies that he libeled the Knights of Columbus and Edward J. O'Brien, master of the Fourth Degree of the First Division, New Jersey Knights of Columbus. It is charged that Mr. Bateman printed pamphlets containing the oath, on a press in the basement of his home...