Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Education, TIME, June 8, I note the name of one James Michael Curley as the recipient, from the Staley College of the Spoken Word, Inc., of the degree ''D.O." I am not familiar with this degree. Is it, perhaps, Doctor of Obliquity...
...name of the biggest U. S. clockmaker has never appeared on the face of a U. S. clock-General Time Instruments, Inc. Last week for the first time this name appeared on the New York Stock Exchange. As unfamiliar to the average investor as to the average clock owner, GTI is known by its two chief subsidiaries, Western Clock Co. ("Big Ben") and Seth Thomas Clock Co. of Thomaston, Conn. These two old family enterprises were put together in 1930 to form the company which now accounts for one-third of the entire U. S. clock business. Instead of celebrating...
...Major Bowes should care to incorporate, the books of Bowes Inc. would show by September a weekly gross of some $30,000. For the famed Bowes gong now reverberates far beyond his radio audience, in a half-dozen lucrative side lines. There are Major Bowes highball glasses, decorated with pictures of cat & dog amateurs; Major Bowes cotton fabrics, also decorated with amateurs; the Major Bowes alarm clock which rouses sluggards with a gong; the 25? Major Bowes' Amateur Magazine; the weekly Amateur Writers Page in Bernarr MacFadden's Liberty ; a parchesi-like Major Bowes Game; two monthly movie...
Keynoter Curtis recalled that she had struggled for many years to make women "money conscious." without much success until her radio talks in 1934. Then, she said, some of her followers in Utica, N. Y. invited her to address a mass meeting. Founded therefrom was Women Investors in America, Inc., pledged to awaken women's minds to finance (TIME, May 27, 1935). A W.I.A. survey had shown that women controlled 80% of U. S. life insurance, 65% of savings accounts, 48% of railroad securities, 44% of utility stocks, 40% of real estate. Director Curtis adopted as the organization...
...last week Women Investors, Inc. had gone quite a way. Despite the half-filled auditorium there were 4,000 registrations for the'"Congress," and the first issue of Woman Courageous, new W. I. A. organ, had a press...