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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hence when Mr. John Sargent Pillsbury is identified in the issue for Dec. 17 with "flour-Eventually. Why not Now?" one weeps to think of the millions which Washburne-Crosby wasted on their slogan for Gold Medal Flour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...brazen Lady Nicotine has grown bold. She now walks the streets in the better part of town and openly solicits the patronage of the young folks. Be careful Old Girl or you'll find yourself behind a deadline down in the restricted district along with John Barleycorn, where you belong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...represents the 367,846 inhabitants of Jackson County. He is a Democrat. Last week he arose in the House to make one of his infrequent speeches. It was a speech addressed to his fellow Democrats, whom he flayed roundly for their post-election faultfinding with National Democratic Chairman John J. Raskob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Youngest | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...Treasury's calculations are not purely arithmetic, that they are sometimes tinctured with policy if not politics. In his own party, Mr. Mellon has been frequently flayed by Michigan's Senator Couzens. Democrats in the House have kept up an intermittent fire. Last week, Democrat John Nance Garner of Texas, minority leader of the House Ways & Means (revenues) Committee, renewed the attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fraud | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...Washington, D.C., John Sebastian Conway, deputy Commissioner of Lighthouses, was found wandering about in a night shirt. He was taken to a hospital where a surgeon cut him open and took 13 safety razor blades out of his stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

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