Word: justness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adman Bruce Barton (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn) knows just how he sells products and ideas: "Say it simply, say it over & over, say it in one-syllable words." He rates the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm and the Gettysburg Address as triumphs of simplicity and brevity: each contains...
"The fathers are willing to answer any questions," he told his Indian flock. "There is much for you to learn . . . You say you have a religion just for the
Mrs. Felix McGinnis, whose late husband was a railroad vice president (The Southern Pacific), was just as staunchly Roman Catholic. For her pretty daughter Claire, obviously nothing would do but a Catholic wedding. Ivan and Claire themselves, pious though they might be, were breathless with the thousand and one urgencies...
The harvesting of the bumper California raisin grape crop, which just ended, was good news last week for pigs, but bad news for taxpayers. The pigs will get most of the surplus raisins for fodder, and the taxpayers will get a bill for about $5,000,000. This giveaway program...
The movie empire which Britain's Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank put together in 14 years was in the midst of its own austerity program. Up for sale this week at public auction will go his studios at Shepherd's Bush and Islington. Rank, who could use the money...