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...surprised that your paper deems it necessary to mention the engagement and marriage of Fatty Arbuckle. You should leave that for your Gum Chewers' Sheets that you refer to so often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perkins vs. Jenkins | 3/9/1925 | See Source »

...similar endless flocks to the local production. The gorgeousness of the story has not been sufficiently reduced to a swiftly rising narrative. Through the opening reels, the characters are confused. Too many dukes and knights in armor and around the chess board are inclined to irritate your U. S. gum-chewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 2, 1925 | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

...example, the New York Evening Graphic. Manhattan gum chewers' sheetlet, property ? of Bernarr Macfadden, planned a Crossword Puzzle Contest. Others copied it and one even went to the extent of printing the probable answers of the Graphic's puzzles (TIME, Feb. 2). But the crossword puzzle contest wore out; and the Graphic promptly announced a new contest, or series of contests?$150 a day in prizes for the last line of incomplete limericks to be published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West of Tipperary | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...Wrigley has just been elected president of the William Wrigley Jr. Co., the $90,000,000 Chewing Gum corporation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New President of Gum Corporation | 2/10/1925 | See Source »

When the stockholders of great companies meet, their action is often decided for them in advance. Thus it was announced, last week, that William Wrigley Jr., President of the $35,000,000 Wrigley chewing-gum corporation, would resign at the next stockholders' meeting; that his son Philip K. Wrigley. 29, would take his place. William Wrigley Jr., who will be named Chairman of the Board of Directors, will occupy his leisure with the financial management of his two baseball clubs-the Chicago Cubs, the Los Angeles Angels. Young Mr. P. K. Wrigley has been working for his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Gum | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

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