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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Director of Publicity Alfred Henry Kirchhofer, aloof, lantern-jawed managing editor and onetime Washington correspondent of the Buffalo (N. Y.) evening News, was turning out press releases by the thousand, buttons, sunflowers and windshield stickers by the million. Working boss of Hoover publicity in the 1928 campaign, Press-agent Kirchhofer announced when appointed to his current post: "The usual hokum won't go in this campaign...
...Treasurer Charles Barnett ("Barney") Goodspeed, husky Chicago socialite and charitarian, reported to the Clerk of the U. S. House of Representatives that the National Committee had this year received $2,050,655 between June 1 and Sept. 1, spent $1,787,811. Balance on hand was nearly half a million.* Donations of $100 or more accounted...
During the last century the material growth of Harvard has been spectacular but not all-important. The undergraduate body has swelled from a few hundred to many thousands; rich friends have coaxed the endowment well over the hundred-million-dollar mark; Mrs. Widener and Mr. Harkness have raised up pillars in the Yard and flung a row of palaces along the Charles. But all these are simply tools for more important tasks. Other universities have surpassed Harvard in size and approached her in endowment, but real progress has been in a different direction. The history of Harvard's last century...
...rare mood of affability, the world's most distinguished collector of modern paintings, Dr. Albert Coombes Barnes, arrived from Paris on the Normandie last week accompanied by his friend and collaborator, Miss Violette de Mazia, the manuscript of a new book and half a million dollars worth of pictures. Talking easily, the inventor of Argyrol announced...
...forced the retail margin of profit down to a hairline on the popular brands of cigarets. At two-for-a-quarter the Big Three retail for $6.25 a 1,000. Retailer's profit, allowing discount, is less than i^ per package. Philip Morris, which sold 3,800 million cigarets last year, has generally been able to maintain a retail price of 15? straight, or $7.50 per 1,000. Wholesaling at $6.85 per 1,000, Philip Morrises make the retailer well over 1? per package. On this advantage Philip Morris prospered until it hit a snag. Several States put into...