Word: paged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President of R. H. Macy & Co. His younger brother, Herbert N. Straus, Macy's secretary and treasurer, was last week appointed New York state treasurer of Hooverism (see page...
Money makes noise. There is money in the screams of locomotive brakes, rumble of subways, shrieks of factory whistles, whirr of machinery, cracks of pile drivers, cries of peddlers. There is "big money" in the clamor of exchanges, in the shouts of bidders, the scurrying of page boys, the ringing of telephones, the rattle of tickers. When money is plentiful, easy, the world's marts are thunderous with the din of handling it, transmuting it, losing or winning it. But when money is scarce, tight, there is silence...
...each of the three mornings on the train, passengers receive copies of the Overland Mail at the breakfast table. A box on the front page greets them with: "Good morning! How did you sleep?" No attempt is made to cover current news, the papers being printed before the train leaves Chicago (or Los Angeles). But many an oldtime miscellany is published. For example...
...Producer White's assemblies, the footwork in the Scandals was swift and spry, attended to by Tom Patricola, a pair of coordinated sisters, a well-coached chorus, and Producer White in person. Willie and Eugene Howard were part of what was funny; the rest was Arthur Page who gave tongue to this pretty berceuse: "Buy low, sell high, buy low, sell high. That's your father's lullaby...
Died. Emory Titman, 38, heaviest theatrical angel in the world (587 pounds); of heart disease; in Atlantic City, N. J. (see page...