Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your article captioned "Soul's Helmsman," p. 22, issue of August 13, when you mention the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the late Joseph Pulitzer, founder, and his son Joseph, and review briefly its growth to its present prestige, how could you leave out the name of the man who stood shoulder to shoulder with Joseph Sr. and Joseph Jr. for 50 years in the building of this great newspaper...
...much Mrs. Edison, who accumulated so many millions of dollars during her husband's life that he did not need to mention her in his will, contributed to the rehabilitation of Chautauqua the Institution did not reveal. Biggest single gift in the campaign was an anonymous one of $5,000. Chautauqua trustees contributed $20,000. The Bird & Tree Club, of which Mrs. Edison is president, chipped in with $3,358 while the Woman's Club gave $2,507. By far the greatest bloc of contributions toward lifting Chautauqua out of its gentle dumps came from those who have...
...leafy green vegetables due them. The nation would have had a shortage of 1,144,000,000 doz. eggs, of nearly 2 billion pounds of meat. And instead of getting if oz. of butter a day every citizen would have had to put up with half that, not to mention considerable shortages of tomatoes, oranges and various other vegetables and fruits...
...some time in his life had the weekly ownership bug. The hurdle usually was found to be the excessive price asked by owners; Oregon's highest-priced weekly sold for $35,000 without accounts receivable; several weeklies have sold for $20,000 to $25,000. . . . You also mention the Humboldt County, Calif., perfumer who 20 years ago scented his advertisement. Dec. 8, 1927, The Oregon Statesman, then published by R. J. Hendricks, now editor-emeritus, put peppermint into its ink to add zest to its "slogan page" which, that issue, dealt with the growth of the peppermint oil industry...
...Haven, Conn. Sirs: Doesn't the "kudization" of Samuel Seabury [at Rutgers] deserve mention in TIME along with that of Presidents Dodds and Thomas Watson? [TIME, June...