Word: labelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main street of Homer, Ill., one night last week War veterans burned a stuffed figure. On it hung the label: ANDY MELLON. That was what Homer's ex-soldiery thought of a Secretary of the Treasury who had dared oppose legislation in Congress to up their Bonus loans...
...ground with laughter, regardless of the nature of the sequence. At Rhino Town, on the White Nile, Pressagent McClain came upon a tribe of natives all naked save that one of them sported a neat, snap-brim brown hat. Removing the hat, Mr. McClain was surprised to find the label: Brooks Bros.,? Madison Ave., New York. And although the film shows many a fierce jungle beast, the troupe spent six weeks at $2,000 a day trying to persuade some crocodiles to snap...
...unspeakably cruel! I don't understand it at all. If I hadn't seen with my own eyes these poor wretched people standing on street corners with a sign? a label mind you?reading 'UNEMPLOYED,' I would not have believed it of this wonderful country. . . . There is comfort in the thought that others are suffering with you?even in a breadline. But there is not one grain of solace in selling apples...
Corn Sugar Ruling. Officials of the $126,000,000 Corn Products Refining Co. were jubilant last week. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde ruled that corn sugar may be used in foods without declaring it on the label. Corn Products Refining makes 400,000 Ib. of corn sugar per day, now plans to double its capacity, build a million-dollar plant. The company's trademarked products include: Argo starch; Mazola oil; Karo syrup; Linit starch; Cerelose white sugar; Kremel pudding powder...
...were careful to dissemble and critics referred only with circumlocutory guile to the obvious fact that the Barrymores were depicted. But since the play, after brilliant and prolonged success in New York and on the road, provoked no violent animosity from the group satirized, Paramount has found courage to label the characters. Fredric March imitates John Barrymore and tries to look as much like him as possible without conspicuous makeup. Ina Claire reflects many of the favorite intonations of gaunt Sister Ethel. The playing of these two is better than the playing of the original principals in the same parts...