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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conversations of great men are often just as simple as that. The two at Brule thought of no more to say, so Coolidge cigars were passed around and the interview was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Host | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...been variously related to many and variously famed characters, including Actress Bankhead whom many a theatregoer believes to be red-headed and who is the daughter of a onetime U. S. Congressman and who is a sister of Jumper Hoyt's onetime wife Eugenia who is often referred to as Jeanne, notably by the Social Register...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 30, 1928 | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, trans-Atlantic flyer, has often written poems and essays, most of which remain unpublished. Having completed his flight to the U. S. he wrote no autobiography but a play which will be produced at the end of this month, in Dresden. The play's name is Dread of Good Luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

Great in the U. S. is the urge to merge. In Europe, the cartel is the current charm against business ills. Members of a cartel agree to such things as fixed production quotas, a single retail price scale, exchange of patent rights, standardization of parts, etc. A cartel often amounts to a monopoly of an industry and sometimes extends across international boundary lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cartels | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...well-being of the world at large. Not so advertising men. Since their business is that of horn-blowing and drumbeating, they prefer not to roll their own. R. H. Grant, vice president of Chevrolet Motor Car Co., accused them of doing so, asserting that "the advertising man" too often annoys the world by the share he claims in the success of various businesses. This incrimination was received with applause by the humble and clever advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Admen | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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