Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Distinguishing between the Tammany Society and the political machine controlled by its members is something like distinguishing between the social and the business implications of a Lions' Club luncheon. What Grand Sachem Voorhis meant was that there is such a thing as the Society of St. Tammany, founded in Revolutionary times by a New York upholsterer named William Mooney to give the bourgeoisie a club comparable to the aristocratic Society of the Cincinnati, to which only New York's fine families belonged. An Indian patron-saint and Indian rigmarole were adopted as a protest against Toryism. The objects...
...continuity of progeny in the management meant continuity of operation policy. Said President Joseph Bernard Shea recently: "The store's merchandising, policy demands complete stocks of medium and better grade merchandise, and places importance on style leadership. Seconds and substandard or imperfect merchandise are not bought, sold or advertised. The store is a regular and consistent advertiser, combining style and price appeal with greater emphasis on regular year-round business than upon special sales. The present trend away from sale stores and sensational price appeal and toward businesses with established standards of quality and value greatly favors the growth...
...year. Only Gillette Safety Razor Co. exceeds it in output. When American paid the makers of "Gem" $4,000,000 for their business, $3,600,000 was for "goodwill." American also bought "Ever-Ready" goodwill for $4,560,000, and the "Star" trademark for $250,000. The goodwill meant money spent advertising those razors and blades. In six years after buying these brands American Safety Razor spent $4,000,000 more on advertising. Therefore its officials were vexed with International Safety Razor for selling similar products.* They sued and expected to win. But International's lawyers thundered that American...
...flies to the Hotel Bellevue and to City Hall. At the former, a speaker of the Boston Advertising Club calmed the city in general by allusions to the easy life among laundrymen and street cleaners on that side of the Charles. But for City Hall the darts were obviously meant and there they rattled impotently off the shield of Superintendent Crowley's indignation. "Our officers are the finest looking bunch of men in the State" he cried. "One shave a day is enough for them; and as for powdering their noses, laugh. There shall be no such feminism among...
...mind of Esmond Harmsworth, next day, when he accepted for Lord Rothermere a made-in-Hungary automobile with a chassis of re-enforced silver and a body overlaid with hammered gold. The donor, Herr Franz Bert, pioneer Hungarian motor manufacturer, was reported to have spent upon his well-meant if gaudy gift...