Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...markets moved three carloads of particularly luscious apricots. Each crate was proudly proclaimed: "Grown and Packed on President Hoover's Ranch, Wasco, Cal." A pell-mell demand for Hoover apricots followed until the supply was exhausted. . . . Great was the President's annoyance at this exploitation of his name and position. Careful explanations emanated officially from the White House: President Hoover does not own a Wasco Fruit Ranch. He does own some stock in Pozo Products Co. which in turn controls the ranch. The use of his name was "positively unauthorized," "grossly misleading...
...Greene, 25, master of the ship bearing his name is descended from a long line of rivermen. His first mate, the only woman on the Ohio river to hold a pilot's license, was his mother...
...Lord St. Davids was and is one of the two debenture trustees, the other being, until last week, the Duke of Abercorn. Lord St. Davids was not informed of the new issue and first became aware of it when he read an advertisement in the Times wherein his own name was used conspicuously. Although he admitted last week that there was nothing illegal about such a procedure, Tycoon St. Davids was grievously vexed, brooded long, and one day demanded certain facts from the company auditor. Like most auditors, this one was a reserved gentleman. His reticence, and other aspects...
...made his friends by every means at his command. Once, when they were crying for newspapers to sell during a Chicago strike, he ignored death threats, put his Tribunes on armed trucks, saw that every newsstand was supplied. In newsdealers' tiny offices, storerooms, back-alley loafing places, the name Max Annenberg became a great name. They call him "Max," he calls them by their first names. Once when a newsdealer died and left his business to a son who knew little about circulation, Max Annenberg stepped in, said he would be responsible for the efficiency...
...Bishops by the Rev. Edward Lyttelton, onetime headmaster of Eton, who demanded to know immediately what they thought about birth control- Said Dr. Lyttelton: "If contraception is not wrong in many cases it must be right. Will any pastor say this from his pulpit? Will any bishop put his name to a document commending the practice even to the dwellers of the city slums? Why not? Or will any ordained person avow in public he is himself a contraceptionist? If not, why not? The Roman Catholic church is very explicit in its attitude, and we ought to make our position...