Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many letters in my possession, the late Rev. Canon John P. Peters, when chairman of the Committee of Fourteen, the leading anti-vice society of New York, repeatedly thanked me for my co-operation with that organization. No one in all the 25 years of my public life has ever dared to make the vile suggestions which emanated from Mr. White, with the approval of Henry J. Allen, publicity director of the Republican National Committee...
...Game of Politics" (column) appears daily and of which he is vice president. He delineates the technology of politics. He has done a history of the Democratic party, f He can applaud as well as he can slam and bang. And he can sympathize because once he knew the life of active politics himself. In 1922 all was arranged for him to have the Senate seat which Maryland's bumbling Bruce now occupies. Pundit Kent turned it down but only, they say, because he felt he could not afford...
Chief among these competitors were the houses of Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc., and Sears Roebuck & Co. Each announced drastic price cuts. Each advertised huge mileage guarantees. Montgomery Ward's "Super Service Riverside" tire carries a guarantee of 30.000 miles. Sears Roebuck gives its "Super Allstate" an assured life of 25,000 miles, proclaims: "No other manufacturer has dared to write such a guarantee," declares itself "America's Largest Distributor of Tires." But Montgomery Ward counters with the slogan. "World's Biggest Tire Dealer." The tire war seemed localized to the two principal mail order houses. While...
...last week, tire manufacturers took vigorous action to meet the menace of the mail order houses. Two months ago, the dormant Rubber Institute was brought to life under the directorship of onetime Prohibition Commissioner Lincoln C. Andrews. Its first arresting act was the insertion, last week, of large advertisements in 400 daily newspapers. Speaking for 44 companies, Tsar Andrews pungently flayed the mileage guarantee. This practice, so profitable to mail order houses, was branded thus...
...Manufacturers . . . guarantee tires bearing their names and serial numbers against defects for the entire life of the tires...