Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME SHOULD KNOW BETTER THAN TO CREDIT CHICAGO HOTEL ASSOCIATION WITH ORIGINATING DUMMY IDEA TO UNJINX 13 AT TABLE [TIME, June 12]. BOSTON'S PARKER HOUSE STARTED IT AND TOLD THE WORLD ABOUT IT IN A PAID TIME COLUMN...
...digesting thoroughly the daily papers. Breakfast is a political meeting, with the cartoonist, his wife, and his two young daughters threshing out the news. After breakfast he walks to his roomy, book-lined studio where with much pacing and squirming and pipe-smoking, he struggles to express a complex idea in a few vivid lines and a brief, usually wry, caption. The final drawing is done rapidly with a fine brush...
...Hazy idea floating through the Prime Ministerial mind seemed to be that the Publicity Department might succeed in convincing the German people there is no encirclement. Those who recalled how British propaganda sold the Germans Wood-row Wilson's 14 points and helped break down their resistance in 1918, guessed it might work. In fact, Lord Perth's principal assistant will be Sir Campbell Stuart, who was also chief aide to Lord Northcliffe in Britain's 1918 propagandizing...
...company it really grew. Son Charles Lehman (who died in 1936), "the merry one," became president. Son Henry Centennial (who died in 1934), "the quiet one," became secretary-treasurer. "Mr. N. G."-"the grave one"-became chairman of the board. "Mr. N. G." in 1903 hit on the profitable idea of selling Richman Bros. $22.50 suits direct to wearer. Today the company operates 62 stores in 57 cities, keeps a mailing list of 1,000,000 purchasers of Richman suits...
...cold day about three years ago, Aaron Meier Frank of Portland, Ore. stopped to watch a fireman hustling up a ladder with a steaming pot of coffee for his water-soaked comrades in the upper floors. That sight gave Aaron Meier Frank an idea. He would give Portland an elaborately equipped "disaster wagon." Mr. Frank, a lively sportsman of 48 and benevolent scion of oldtime Portland merchants, is president of Portland's huge Meier & Frank department store...