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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declared that it is intended to appeal to the baser emotions of cupidity, shame, and the like. Werner, of Brown, advocated advertising because it supports mass production and thus raises the wages. G. W. Harrington '30 presented an analysis showing that it causes economic instability, and, eventually, is paid for by the consumer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN ORATORS DOWN UNIVERSITY DEBATERS | 3/26/1929 | See Source »

Last week Lucien Demotte, son of the late dealer, announced that other experts had called the enamel statuette genuine, and that the Dreicer estate had accordingly paid in full a sum of approximately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Again, Duveen | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...make jockeys try. Many owners give 10% of the purse to a victorious rider. To this Mr. Coffroth adds $5,000. To the winner's trainer goes $5,000 from the Coffroth coffers. James Wood Coffroth. once a boxing promoter, operates Al Hippodromo. He knows how rich purses (paid in U. S. dollars) whip up the sporting appetite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Al Hippodromo | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Charles Evans Hughes was paid $75,000 for explaining to the U.S. Supreme Court why more than 5 cents should be charged for a New York subway ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...driller. With dollars accumulated from purchase and sale of oil leases during boom years around 1906, he "wildcatted." No oil. More dollars; another dry hole. Again he drilled. Oil. Fortune. He sold his first holdings for $2,500,000, and took a flier in rails, in utilities. But oil paid better. He returned to the fields, making more money to buy rail holdings. Fortune turned to vast fortune. He built a railroad; he became a power in transit. Oil gushed for him steadily through the years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Slick Sells | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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