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Word: give (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vice President Flack errs. Investigations regularly show that more than 80% of TIME-readers are cover-to-cover readers. - ED. Sirs: As a weekly cover-to-cover reader of TIME, I am very glad indeed to see that you propose to limit the number of pages. You can give your advertisers more display in a limited number of pages than you can give them in double spreads in a magazine made up of innumerable pages. F. E. BARBOUR Beech-Nut Packing Co. Canajoharie, N.Y. Sirs: Being a cover-to-cover reader I am in favor of keeping the number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Limitation Policy | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Village by 51 votes to 27. With their communication road thus opened, prompt ly the Democrats despatched 200 ammunition wagons for supplies, 200 requests for the tax reports of different corporations. Position. It remained for the leaders to choose their positions on the field. Field Marshal Simmons offered to give battle first in the administrative provisions section along the barren ground of Flexible Tariff Ridge where could be no loot to deter greedy Democrats from fighting wholeheartedly with the enemy. It was a clever opening, but Generalissimo Smoot did not hesitate to accept battle there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Battle Breaks | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...going to have a high time here Tuesday evening. Sister Jean is going to give me a grocery shower. Wednesday afternoon Helen Manning is having a bridge tea for me at the Hartford Golf Club. And on Thursday luncheon, bridge and a shower at the golf club again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mother-in-Law Approves | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...said he had fine connections with certain Naval officers and could furnish me information that would help me in my fight for a stronger Navy.? He told me of several inventions of his, and I replied that I would be glad of any aid he could give, I did not find him to be a Naval expert in any particular sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Epic Lobby | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Leviathan. London barbers grumbled about "foreign labor." When Barber Arico reached London, he found the Kenny hair (see cut) had already been submitted to local shears. Mr. Kenny explained he wanted to give his old friend a vacation. Remarked the London Ex press: "The acquisition of millions tends to make men absurd." Russell ("Lena") Blackburne, manager of the Chicago "White Sox" (American League) baseball team, reached for a telephone after arguing unsuccessfully in a Philadelphia hotel with his husky, young, inebriated first baseman, Art Shires. Infuriated, Baseman Shires wrecked the room, blacked Blackburne's eye,- also pummelled Lou Barbour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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