Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present controversy over the Federal Reserve Board comes to a showdown the outcome will have tremendous implications as a precedent for the future development of the country. From an impartial stand it appears unfortunate that the metropolitan press has presented only the opposition due to the fact that it is voiced by rich...
Married. Barbara Prudence Barnard of Manhattan, daughter of Sculptor George Grey Barnard; and Gordon MacGregor of Manhattan; in Sculptor Barnard's Cloisters (personally collected group of medieval art), a branch of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
Readers of metropolitan newspapers last week observed a new and particularly acrimonious development in the current advertising disagreement between tobacco & sugar, cigarets & candies, Lucky Strikes & Sweets. Begun last winter, when American Tobacco Co. initiated its famed "Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet" series, the publicity war has already produced an astonishing number of alarms and excursions. Indignant outbursts have proceeded from Candy Weekly and other sugar centres. Competing cigarets have rebuked the Lucky campaign.* Advertising itself has engaged in an intermural struggle over "tainted" v. "honest" testimonials. The Better Business Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission have been...
...Exception: Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky. He is always "good box-office." Manhattan's League of Composers, with Stravinsky's half-hour ballet, Les Noces, on the program (first U. S. production), preceded only by a 17th Century academic tidbit, last week drew a $25,000 audience to the Metropolitan Opera House, the smartest audience since the opening of the opera season last autumn...
Among the many developments of our commercial organization probably nothing has been more striking than the growth from the retail general store to the metropolitan department store. Whereas years ago the small individually owned and operated institution was run by a man of native genius and little or no system, today there is probably more actual system and organization in the retail store than in any other organization. Such terms as Inventory Control, Organization Statistics, Sales Audit, etc. which are common enough in these enlightened days, would have been utterly unimaginable twenty-five or fifty years...