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...Wrigley Jr. Co. (gum-chewing Spearmint boys): $4,907,162 as against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Profits | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...cinema industry was astonished. Producers marveled that so spry a product of the peepul as James John Walker should have failed to appreciate how dangerous it would be for cinemakers to provoke the prejudices of their gum-chewing public, by showing political bias on the screen. They marveled that so shrewd a person as Mayor Walker should have underestimated the shrewdness of the cinemen. The Messrs. Schenck and Mayer called Mayor Walker's warnings "extremely amusing." Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays ignored the incident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Walker's Warning | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...York University. These concerts cost nothing to hear. Sponsored by the Guggenheims (Mr. & Mrs. Daniel and Mr. & Mrs. Murray), they are conducted by Edwin Franko Goldman, who, ever since the concerts began eleven years ago, has never missed a performance. For denizens of Manhattan who prefer cigaret smoking to gum-chewing, Willem van Hoogstraten to Franko Goldman, and paying 25? to $1 for a seat to listening for nothing, there are the Philharmonic concerts at the Lewisohn Stadium. These are sponsored by Mrs. Charles S. Guggenheimer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Zoo Opera | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

Ships and planes, heading north, brought food, medicines, snow glasses, gum boots, guns. Unlike Eskimos, Italians cannot trap seals by hand, find it difficult to bag polar bears. Unconfirmed reports said the thiee Arctic pedestrians were safe aboard an ice breaker. Capt. Roald Amundsen, not on speaking terms ,,ith Pilgrim Nobile, forgot personal enmities to lead a rescue expedition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 25, 1928 | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

This queer, shining allegory which was hung up last week for gum-chewers to look at and connoisseurs to appreciate, was threaded together at some time near the middle of the 15th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pioneers | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

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