Word: labelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patriotic enthusiasm prevalent during 1917 and 1918 many institutions were swept into taking away from great scientists and thinkers the honors given them. A taint of Germanism was sufficient to brand a great man as an enemy to be despised. A slight leaning towards peace was sufficient to label a man a pacifist or a traitor to democracy...
...stock without violating the statute. Mr. Mellon personally owns no sea vessel. He never passes on tax refunds. He was allowed a refund of $91.000 on his taxes but was also assessed an additional $209,000. making a net tax loss of $118,000. A bumptious Treasury employe once labeled papers relating to Aluminum Corp.: "This is a Mellon company." Superior officers immediately ordered off the label. Mr. Mellon never mentioned the Barco concession to President-elect Olaya...
...known as a "superior salesman." The new company will have for its slogan: "Glorifying the American Girl." It will stress designs for a special type of woman. If the woman thinks she looks like a member of the Ziegfeld chorus she will easily find her dress, for each label will give the name of the Zig wearing that model. One store in each city will have a franchise for handling Golding dresses. The company will engage "leading American artists" to design its frocks, has not revealed their names...
With an Old Testament sonority the Chattanooga Times editorialized: "The label of criminality has been stamped upon the name of the once great Luke Lea. . . . Instead of serving the people who had honored him he elected to serve Mammon. His ambition for great riches led from the path of honor. And the day of reckoning is at hand...
...includes more than fifty books and also establishes for the first time the status of the pirated edition of the missing canto of "Lancelot", published here under the title "Three Poems" in 1928. This is probably the rarest of all Robinson items, exceeding in scarcity even the famous paper label edition of "Captain Craig." The bibliography is complete and definitive having been prepared with the assistance of Mr. Robinson himself. Mr. Beebe, who is the author of "Aspects of the Poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson" is a member of the editorial staff of the New York Herald Tribune...