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...Looking through The Saturday Evening Post of Oct. 5 I find the following ads- Boston Garter, Daisy Air Rifle, Chiclets, Holeproof Hosiery, Lea & Perrins, Florsheim Shoes, Van Camp's Pork & Beans, Packard cars, Gold Medal Flour etc., etc. The first 31 words of the first editorial entitled "The Howl and the Howlers," are "Glancing casually over a day's news we learn that investors, not knowing what Roosevelt will do next, fear 'that the little of value that is left to them will soon vanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Last fortnight, at the second-run Ritz Theatre in Los Angeles, audiences chuckled good-naturedly at Producer Buell's novelty horse opera, but only once did they really howl : when three-foot-nine Hero Billy Curtis, pursuing three-foot-nine villain Little Billy, galloped off on a black pony, was soon scooting along on a white pony, finished the chase on the black. Trouble with The Terror of Tiny Town, Producer Buell was soon to realize, was that without a few normal-sized folks for contrast, midgets appear much like other people. Next time out, Producer Buell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 1, 1938 | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...five years of clodhopping, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration has trod many a sore toe. But perhaps the most legitimate resulting howl has been that of the American Automobile Association. Reason: the Association's copyrighted insignia, AAA, a motorists' byword since 1902, has since 1933 been plowed under by the New Deal's AAA. Last week, South Carolina's "Cotton Ed" Smith, Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee but no friend of the New Deal, had before the Senate a bill authorizing Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to "select and make public a new name for ... the Agricultural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Triple A Plowed Under | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Results, With the army in charge, the municipal elections on Sunday went off without disorder. The elections were the first in a series of three, the second to be held this week, the third in mid-June, proffered by the Government as one solution of the minority problem. Greatest howl of the Sudetens has been that while they numerically predominate in the border regions, their local governments have been dominated by the Czechs and their administrative posts have been filled with Czech appointees. Among the 1,500 municipalities voting last week only 48 were predominantly German. At last reports most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Second Sarajevo? | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

Because he is only a sophomore this year, Kendall would probably have developed into one of the world's greatest natators in two more years. His energetic sprint style has always caused audiences to howl with delight, while his distance stroke is a model of effortless power, featuring an amazingly powerful kick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kendall, Great Free-Styler, to Leave Harvard in June for Business Career | 4/16/1938 | See Source »

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