Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made itself absolutely indispensable to me. And this in spite of the fact that it irritates me intensely at times. Mr. Hadden, aided of course by his able coadjutors, has built up a great publication. He will be missed, but TIME is now on such a firm foundation that it will go on just the same...
...Rockwell Kent's assertion that the intention of the donor has been violated in the recent award to "the advertisement most effective in the use of illustration." It is hardly credible that Mr. Bok should have sat idly by while this award has been four times made to the firm or person responsible for the advertisement rather than the painter of the picture utilized. Aside from the fact that the wording of the conditions seem to justify their present construction, the tacit assent of the donor to this arrangement should certainly be sufficient justification...
...unfortunate that an interested individual, especially one who had been the recipient of the voluntary generosity on the part of the firm involved should take it upon himself to interpret the will of the donor without an express statement from him. Mr. Kent's position in his profession can only increase the regret that he has taken it upon himself to becloud a policy that would seem to be clearly d both by precedent and a common sense interpretation of the conditions governing the award...
...controversy, the first having featured Mr. Kent's return to Marcus and co. of a check for $500 of the prize money on the grounds that the terms of the awards clearly signified Mr. Bok's intention of honoring the author or designer of the advertisements rather than the firm using them...
...proud duenna of the city, the Watch and Ward Society, sees her protege slipping from her firm grasp, but there is always that inevitability of fate, the stumbling block of so many good intentions. The excellent reputation that it succeeded in winning for itself by uncovering the wicked snares of Henry Mencken several years ago has apparently been forgotten. But it does not weep alone. Book sellers and publishers whose wares it was the custom of the society to call to the attention of the public will have to seek other means of attaining the hallowed pages of the Evening...