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Second in interest are the quarto volumes of the plays, especially the first quarto of Midsummer Night's Dream (1600), the Whole Contention (spurious), and the so-called quarto of King Lear (1608). These are opened to display the carnation emblem and the typography upon which Professor Pollard of the University of London bases his thesis that the Lear and the Whole Contention together with six other plays similarly marked and printed, and variously dated 1600, 1608, and 1619, were in reality all printed and bound together by Jaggard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHAKESPEARE EXHIBIT IN WIDENER BELIEVED WORTH OVER $100,000 | 10/5/1934 | See Source »

David E. Lilienthal. president of EHFA, got busy selecting electric ranges, refrigerators (costing less than $80), water heaters (costing less than $65) suitable for rural sale. He invited several advertising agencies to submit designs for a TVA emblem and suggest plans for an advertising campaign. Chosen were Young & Rubicam's emblem (a blue hand holding a red lightning bolt with the inscription "TVA-Electricity for All") and plan of campaign. The campaign: window displays, demonstrations, pamphlets distributed by franked mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Government in Advertising | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

...under a pale moon, its two-story houses and paved streets dark and quiet. There was not a U. S. Marine in the place. Across the lake a pink plume of smoke rose from Mount Momotombo, most perfect of the volcanoes Sandino and his countrymen reverence as their national emblem. Farther north; 100 mi. through the jungle, was the peacetime residue of his followers, sleeping among the farms and mines of his El Cooperative Rio Coco settlement. When the car reached the main palace gate, it was stopped by a squad of native guardsmen. The little brown men waved their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Murder at the Crossroads | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...Republican Army and the Laborites paraded and tiraded through Dublin streets to College Green. There they poured kerosene on two Union Jacks, brandished the blazing banners until only charred staves remained. Leaders howled at the crowd, "Destroy every poppy in Dublin tomorrow and burn every Union Jack and every emblem of British imperialism." They excoriated President Eamon de Valera for not having made it a crime to fly the British flag in Dublin on Armistice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: Jacks & Contracts | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

Explained in detail on the Eagle's front page, the accusations against the Levands were based on a scheme for attracting advertisers which they had developed last summer: an "emblem of quality" bearing the signature of Wichita's director of public welfare, Dr. R. E. Hobbs, and used in advertisements in the Beacon. Dr. Hobbs declared that his signature had been used without permission. Earlier in the week, the same grand jury had indicted the Beacon's principal advertiser. Allen W. Hinkel Co., Wichita department store, for misleading advertising in the Beacon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: War in Wichita | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

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