Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Automotive Daily News. On May 15, Automotive Daily News, automobile trade paper, published a story concerning an alleged new Reo eight. Reo Motor Car Co. promptly filed suit for one million dollars libel, calling the story "utterly false and without foundation." Reo's President Richard H. Scott took a page advertisement in metropolitan dailies to denounce the "pastime of originating and circulating falsehoods about motor industry," and improved the opportunity to cheer for the Reo six and to flay eights in general. He has seen no eight as good...
...Samuel Emory Thomason, half of Bryan-Thomason Newspaper Publishers, Inc. (TIME, May 20), also testified. He admitted that he had been commissioned by International officials to try to buy many midwest newspapers. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, said Co-Publisher Thomason, was approached by him. It refused an offer of 21 million dollars. The Plain Dealer was not for sale, Mr. Thomason was told. With many another journal he had the same success. But in three newspapers (Chicago Journal, Tampa Tribune, Greensboro, N. C. Record) owned by Bryan-Thomason, International has an interest...
...view of this declaration, the story which TIME, May 13 reported as being current in diplomatic circles was evidently erroneous. TIME regrets any injustice thereby done to Publisher McLean...
James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, has been twanging a harp during his stay on the Adriatic isle of Brioni. Last week he was in no mood for twanging. Reason: it was reported that Mrs. Tunney, convalescent from an appendicitis operation (TIME, May 20) must soon undergo another for stomach trouble...
LITANY OF WASHINGTON STREET-Vachel Lindsay-Macmillan ($3). A curious potpourri of U. S. lore, in rhythmic U. S. language, which ranks Walt Whitman with Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln as a patriot, and proposes to celebrate his birthday (May 31) "with new great maypole dances...