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Since Partner Seligman was 76 when he died, had been inactive in the firm for years, politicians viewed this reason as polite fiction. Senator Couzens' threats seemed more plausible; proved again that any Wall Streeter is good mincemeat for the Congressional sausage-machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Bailie Out | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...Macmillan ($2.50). If civilization could be put in a nutshell, the neat result might well resemble Mandoa, Mandoa! Founded on the Swiftian principle of satiric contrast (Gulliver v. Lilliput)-in this case the white man's burden v. the black man's blessings-this brilliant novel makes mincemeat alike of the noble savage and the noble civilizer. If Authoress Holtby were not so entertaining, her carefully unmoralized tale might cause some well-clothed shudders. Prettily executed and often good for a laugh, Mandoa, Mandoa! may well seem to thoughtful readers a shrewd axe-blow at the roots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Promotion | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...loquacious spieler who had gulled him the year before, but immediately falls under the hypnotic influence of an acrobat in the show. Margy Frake meets Pat Gilbert, a newspaper man from the big city, whose influence with the judges wins the prizes for Mrs. Frake's pickles and mincemeat. Thoroughly satisfied with the week's entertainment, the Frakes drive home to another year of hog-raising and gloating over their six blue ribbons...

Author: By E. G., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

Little 1. Fling Huey will be cating bulldog mincemeat with chopsticks made out of the despicable Yale goalposts before two hundred more bandits are killed in Manchuria. It is no bull to say that the bulldog will have his day as the underdog tomorrow. Harvard 14 Yale 7 Brown 14 Colgate 6 Notre Dame 20 Navy 0 Stanford 21 California...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUEY SAYS PLACE BETS ON LIGHT WINES, BEER, HARVARD | 11/18/1932 | See Source »

...Milk, Mincemeat, Fruit Juice. The Borden business began in 1857 with Gail Borden's discovery of a method of condensing milk. The Borden Company is the present result. In 1927 it was the largest manufacturer of evaporated and condensed milk and the largest distributor of fluid milk and cream in the U. S. It also sold butter, eggs, malted milk, caramels. Recently it acquired ice cream factories. Added to Borden products by merger last week were dried whole milk (Klim and Parlac), dried skimmed milk (Merrell-Soule and Breadlac) mincemeat (None Such), dried orange and lemon juices-all products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Merger | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

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