Word: em
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overrun with the wrong kind of people. . . . We used the Baptist church for a jail, then we got a little jail built and they used the church for a dance hall. Finally some fellow came into town one Sunday afternoon and set fire to our two churches. Burnt 'em down. That made me mad, so I built a Presbyterian church to get even. . . . You can put in the paper that I'm the only guy that ever came out of Texas that wasn't a cowbov. High-heeled boots hurt my feet...
...worried about this money hoarding. When we were on this subject the President looked directly and severely at me and asked me: "Write a joke against these hoarders. Humor might show 'em how foolish they are. Now, go do that." So after all my kidding about Hoover Commissions, I am finally on one, "The Hoover Anti-hoarding Joke Commission...
Humble pie is not included in the rations of a general officer of the U. S. Army, active or retired. No exception is tight-lipped Charles Pelot ("Fight 'Em All") Summerall, veteran of many an Army campaign since 1892, who retired last year as Chief of Staff to become president of the Citadel, South Carolina's State military college at Charleston...
...when other manufacturers were still dubious about the power of advertising, Wrigley believed in it ("Tell 'em quick and tell 'em often"), spent millions to publicize his gum in practically every country of the globe. He lost several small fortunes in the process. But the fortune he finally attained was reputed to be close to $100,000,000. In 1917 he bought an interest (along with Jonathan Ogden Armour and Albert David Lasker) in the Chicago Cubs, the money-losing, badly run National League baseball club whose members lived so riotously that Wrigley virtually took on the role...
Radio advertising is a step or two be hind printed advertising in the way it em ploys good music. It has progressed to thi extent of presenting many famed individuals. (Notable this season is the General Electric Concert series given Sunday afternoons with different artists?last weel Soprano Lily Pons.) But Radio advertisers still stop short of chamber music?music in its purest form. The radio series of chamber musicales which started last week required the philanthropy of Mrs Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, the endowment she gave in 1925 to the Music Divi sion of the Library of Congress. The Rotl...