Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Abolished "gum shoe" squad-special police largely engaged in reporting on other police-exiled its head to duty in Long Island City...
...Gum. Few gum chewers who will chew Wrigley's Doublemint gum in 1929 will realize that the use of the word "Doublemint" is costing the Wrigley company almost $2,000,000. Back in 1911 the L. P. Larson gum company, claiming prior rights to the word "Doublemint," sued Wrigley for its use of this brand name. After a -year battle, Wrigley Gum and Larson Gum have settled the quarrel by payment of $1,900,000 to the Larson company...
When he got back in office last year, Mayor Thompson called loudly upon men like President James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co., Utility Man Samuel Insull, John Hertz of Yellow Cabs, William (Gum) Wrigley Jr. and Promoter George F. Getz, to serve on a grandiose committee which later proved to be only one more vehicle for Thompsonian publicity. With the Mayor increasingly bogged and discredited, the Mayor's committee has awakened to its opportunity, to Chicago's necessity. Last week the Chicago potentates were considering taking .the city's affairs-debts, taxes, crime, public works...
Forthwith, from many a cover, svelte females simpered; deep-browed males smirked. All were ruminant. Their cud, readers learned, was PRIMLEY'S PEPSIN GUM. And Pioneer Thompson's illustrations dared even more. They caused apple-cheeked lasses to pedal CRESCENT, RAMBLER bicycles. Other lasses donned DR. WARNER'S CORALIE CORSETS, "Fitted to Living Models." Subscribers responded; magazines prospered...
...Billie." Her confession was made on first meeting Jackson (in the previously popular non-musical version known as "Broadway") Jones. He had inherited money from his uncle and Billie was his uncle's secretary. For commendable reasons, Billie wished Jackson not to sell the avuncular corporation, a chewing gum one; she urged him to keep on with the business himself in defiance of protesting "trusts." And this...