Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harpo Marx (Animal Crackers). There are also two female mimics: Dorothy Sands and Paula Trueman. The latter sings a Mid-Victorian love lyric while stripping herself of illusion's oldtime harness−bustle, gussets, padded bosom. Congratulations pokes a rather feeble finger at country politics. Morgan Wallace (the name of both playwright and hero) is a stock company entrepreneur and leading man who, broke, is persuaded by a smalltown boss in Missouri to run as dummy candidate for Mayor. So potent has been his appeal over the footlights that he gets all the women's vote, is elected...
Dedicating the clinic on the feast of the Passover was typical of Straus donations. Philanthropist Straus likes to commemorate festivals by gifts. On his 80th birthday last year (Jan. 31) he sent $100,000 to Jerusalem's Zionist leaders. His name is inevitably associated with milk. He has established milk stations throughout the U. S., conducted pasteurization campaigns in the U. S., Palestine, Great Britain, France...
...with Lewis H. Brown, both formerly of Montgomery Ward. So strongly was the predicted merger looked upon as a Morgan maneuver that when, last week. President G. D. Crabbs of Cincinnati's Philip Carey Mfg. Co., showed himself in the Morgan Manhattan offices, the rumors promptly added the Carey name to the merger list. With American Radiator for the heating. Standard Sanitary for the plumbing, and Johns-Manville and Carey for the roofing...
Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Brandreth McAlpin Jr. of Greenwich, Conn., eldest son and daughter-in-law of Col. B. B. McAlpin (hotels, law) of Manhattan; a son (first grandson), 7 Ibs. 9 oz. Name: B. B. McAlpin...
...newsprint was going down (it is now about $55). Mr. Graustein was made president of International with instructions to save it from disaster. He closed its less efficient plants. Paper plants are usually on waterpower sites. International found itself with much unused waterpower. International added "Power" to its name, bought into the New England Power Association, became a seller of electricity. The paper business was in a bad way. In 1928 the gross income of International was 54% from power, 25% from paper, 21% from miscellaneous sources. The company was not getting its lion's share of what newsprint...