Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That people will listen to advertising talk sandwiched in between music or other entertainment is the theory upon which all radio advertising is based. A variant of this appeared last week when Durium Products Corp., makers of "Hit-of-the-Week" phonograph records, announced that this month they would issue, in the same envelope, a four-in. disc containing music and advertising matter. Name of this new medium is "Durium Junior." For more than two years Durium Products has been selling flexible, shatterproof, one-side recordings of popular tunes, on news and cigar stands. Peak sales have reached...
...from the Viceroy or other high official who must be seen in the interest of the cause. Thus my appearance at the committee meeting on Monday can only come under the third exception, but only by a considerable stretch of meaning." Eventually he did attend the Monday conference, to listen but not to speak. Accompanied by his faithful Mrs. Sarojini Naidu carrying a thermos bottle full of goat's milk and a bag of nuts, he arrived in a small Wolseley saloon upholstered in scarlet leather. Dignified Sir Samuel Hoare attracted no little attention by popping suddenly from the interior...
Montgomery Ward finally declined to listen to terms of one share of Sears for each two and a half shares of its own stock. When the bigger company was convinced of this its vice chairman, Lessing Rosenwald, said: "We felt that those terms were a very fair proposal. . . ." Sears, Roebuck officials definitely stated that they could not consider a consolidation on any terms less favorable to Sears, Roebuck than the two and a half for one basis. This was one of the rare times that terms had been discussed by officials of either company despite the innumerable outcroppings...
...Listen, you high-combed roosters, don't you go away from here and say I'm a Socialist because I'm not. . . . You wouldn't go get a sawmill man and have him perform an operation for appendicitis on you, would you? Well, nobody ever claimed Hugh White ever had a minute's training in governmental affairs. . . . It's a money campaign. . . . Everything I am today I owe to my mother and father. . . . Hugh White has spent his whole life in the pursuit of wealth. He says a man should not be elected to office unless...
...drive for the Premiership he has stumped Quebec all summer hurling accusations of gross extravagance at Premier Taschereau, blaming the Liberals for everything from unemployment to an attempt to assassinate him, Camillien Houde. He had one cureall: Government loans at 2% to Quebec farmers. Canadians flocked to listen to him. Impressed editors prophesied that if he did not win the election he would pare the Liberal majority to a sliver. Quebec's performance at the polls last week only proved again that listening to inflammatory speeches and voting for candidates are two affairs. Liberal Taschereau...