Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would perform a public service if you would devote space to debunking the myth that it is a crime against the Federal law to issue a check for less than one dollar (TIME, July...
...Author. Although Red Likker may sell well, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb is no booklegger. Cautious not to offend Cobb-clients, he leaves the great Prohibition novel a thing yet to be written. But Mr. Cobb in action is less cautious than Novelist Cobb. Says he, lately elected Chairman of the Association against the Prohibition Amendment...
Another New York Syndicate, less overt about its membership, its plans. Probable designer-Charles Drown Mower or Charles Frederick Herreshoff (son of the late great James Brown Herreshoff, designer of the Resolute and its predecessors Vigilant, Defender, Columbia, Reliance...
...inviting consumers to become stockholders were probably not familiar to Surgeon Squibb. There was nothing of that sort in the Navy, very little of it in business. Now that both these policies have become commonplaces, the successors of Surgeon Squibb have produced an idea that is more or less of a novelty in 1929. What they propose is to invite not employes* nor consumers, but retailers, to become both stockholders and profitsharers...
Observers investigated, found the reason for the snake-less Times. Great publishers often have pet aversions. Publisher Bernarr Macfadden's aversion is birth control, Publisher George Horace Lorimer's are publicity and social functions. Publisher William Randolph Hearst's is England. Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick's are people who will not give him his own way. And a pet aversion of Publisher George Baker Longan of the Kansas City Times is wriggly, writhy, slithery snakes. An unflinching rule keeps snakes entirely out of the Times' pages- out of the news, features, fiction, comics. Other Times...