Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME of May 25 carries an advertisement with historical background for The Crosley Radio Corp. Josephine is represented having a little marital discussion with Napoleon about his Moscow campaign. I wasn't there with a Crosley but Marie Louise of Austria and not Josephine, was Napoleon's wife then...
...Napoleon divorced Josephine in 1809, retreated from Moscow in 1812. Hereafter, let Crosley Radio exercise more care in preparing advts for historically-minded TIME-readers...
...year they numbered 590. Sales had grown to the startling total of $50,000,000 a year. And with possible sites for stores all over the U. S. Mr. Woolworth might well have faced the future with a justified smugness. Yet in 1909 Mr. Woolworth, a devoted worshipper of Napoleon, showed brilliant commercial strategy by opening a store in Liverpool. F. W. Woolworth & Co., Ltd., as the British unit was called, grew until last year it operated 428 "3d to 6d Stores." During most of the past two decades the earnings of the parent company have been jumping far faster...
...Dardis, whom he called Mazie. She called him Hidey, as he insisted. They lived in a confused menage near Central Park. He would come in at all hours, would sleep but three or four hours (when he was a child he reasoned that brief sleep was the essence of Napoleon's career). Nor did many know why the fingers of his left hand were stubby. When he was three, he rolled into a floor brazier of live coals. Before his mother could get to him his hand was a jelly. Later a country surgeon cleaned up the finger stumps...
...Juniper Grove 53 years ago, a fluent lawyer-politician idolized by Mississippi's swamp folk, Governor Bilbo served his State as Lieutenant Governor (1912-16) and Governor (1916-20). He was elected again in 1928. With a son at West Point, he likes to compare himself to Napoleon. But what he fears most is a Waterloo at the hands of the Mississippi Legislature. When State finances went from bad to worse last winter and voters began to clamor for legislative relief, Governor Bilbo propounded this political proposition: he would issue the necessary call for a special session, provided...