Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...property in Sorrento a New York Real Estate firm (headed by a Joseph S. Edelman) held an option, which, last week was delivered over to John E. Nail, Negro real estate operator.* Soon his plans became known. In Sorrento he will organize a fashionable Negro summer resort. There will be a golf course, tennis courts, a clubhouse, a swimming beach across the narrow cove from Bar Harbor...
There is another legend on the Gillette blade wrappers, the last and smallest line of all. It needs no emphasis nor interpretation, being firm and final. It says: "Reg. U. S. Pat. Off." The company needs hardly worry for feat purchasers will defy those words...
Bookman. Formerly owned by George H. Doran's publishing firm, the Bookman was what is known in the trade as a house organ. It was recently purchased by private capital for Burton Rascoe, editor. The new magazine has a gay cafe au lait cover. Inspection of its con- tents, leads critics to suspect that (like Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, etc.) the Bookman is feeling the sharp spur of the American Mercury in the sluggish sides of thoughtful periodical publishing in the U. S. Among the articles is one by John Farrar, whose editorship (starting in 1921) brought the Bookman...
...seizing, singlehanded, the 18-man crew and $500,000 liquor cargo of the S. S. Grey Point, British rum boat, one night last month in New York Harbor, Charles L. Duke, temporary ensign in the U. S. coast guard, was last week commissioned a lieutenant, junior grade, by firm strokes of the presidential...
...past week with a sudden, sharp shock. Dynamic Augusto Turati (TIME, Aug. 8), Secretary-General of the Fascist Party (and, in the opinion of some observers, the future II Duce), expelled one Signer Settimelli from the party for "grave and repeated lack of discipline," warning three others with a firm reprimand...