Word: might
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...post office matters carry great weight at the White House. The Minnesota election was barely over before President Hoover appointed Also-Ran Coleman to be First Assistant Postmaster-General, second-in-command of the whole vast U. S. postal service. A friend of Statesman Stimson and Leader Tilson might not win, it seemed, but a friend of Secretary Newton simply could not lose...
...Consequently as a purely defensive move, disregarding any support which might be expected from other nations of the British Empire, Canada should IMMEDIATELY proceed to negotiate an offensive and defensive alliance with Mexico and Japan...
...best merchandising idea of Edward Albert Filene was probably the Bargain Basement, which, first known as Filene's Folly, has since been widely copied. Basement merchandise was sold on the plan of reducing the price for every week that the goods remained unpurchased. Thus a dress might have a first price of $25, and, if not sold at this figure, go down to $22, to $20. to $18 until someone finally bought it. Many a thrifty Boston housewife, eyeing some Basement article, would stand torn with indecision, balancing her chance of waiting another week and getting a lower price...
...last month (TIME, June 3), Banker Giannini announced that his 60th birthday (1870-1930) would mark his retirement, evident became Elisha Walker's position as Heir Apparent. Thus last week's amalgamation of Bank of America, N. A., with Chatham and Phenix National Bank and Trust Co. might well have been regarded as First Result of Blair & Co. influence in Giannini projects...
...sued Robert Bosch Co.. claiming as its most valued asset, exclusive right to the Bosch name in the U. S. Inventor Bosch contended that his name did not become the property of American Bosch Corp. in 1917 since he had an agreement with the original company that they might use his name only so long as they bought their materials from the German parent plant. But no written agreement to this effect had been made. Inventor Bosch's contention collapsed. Nor could he protest the original seizure of the Bosch stock, because of a restraining post-War German-American...