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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Smith was nominated by those sections of the country which rarely if ever are found in the Democratic column...
Persons who read papers knew that the $55,000,000 estate of Belgium's richest jew could now be distributed to his heirs, since his death was certain at last. A few days before the body was found the Court of Appeals at Brussels had refused to issue a death certificate, holding that Captain Loewenstein was simply "missing," after his disappearance from an airplane in flight over the English Channel (TIME, July 16). This ruling, if persisted in, would have made it impossible to distribute the estate until 100 years after Captain Loewenstein's birth...
...widow Angeline and Son Louis embarked for America, settled in Manhattan. When a year had passed, they found they had saved a capital of $100. Proudly, they formalized their little business, became Louis Philippe, Inc. Their first trademarked line they named the "Angelus," the tribute of a dutiful son to the widow Angeline. By 1914, the American public was beginning to be cosmetic-conscious. Cosmetic makers, among them the Philippes, valued their products in that year...
...beauty-seeking public. Amor Skin is advertised as "a new scientific discovery to rejuvenate the skin." Originally, it included a substance extracted from the skin of very young iguana lizards. But as the demand grew, young iguana lizards became scarce. And it conveniently happened that the same substance was found in the skin-glands of the tortoise. Amor Skin may be purchased for $16.50 by women between the ages of 20 and 35. Older women who crave tortoise skin glands must...
...blackest horror in darkest Africa is sleeping sickness. Very different from encephalitis lethargica, the sleeping sickness found in the U. S., this disease is caused by trypanosomes (parasitic protozoa) carried by the tsetse fly. Its toll is about 100,000 human victims a year and all the domestic animals the tsetse fly can find...