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Word: papers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: It is reassuring to learn that you plan to limit the size of TIME to 80 pages. As an advertiser, I am equally enthusiastic over your decision. A larger paper would mean a less intimate one and, therefore, a less valuable one from the advertising standpoint. EDWARD P. BAILEY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Limitation Policy | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...General Overseer Voliva, last week was a bad week for an invasion. Stanch fundamentalist, he believes the world "is square and flat like a sheet of paper," offers $1,000 to anyone who can disprove him. When the Graf Zeppelin started he predicted dire calamity awaited it. Informed that it had docked safely in Friedrichshafen, he sulked and refused to issue a statement. Smart Sister Locy was quick to take advantage of this. As a prime Voliva-baiting tactic she nightly challenged him to debate the earth's shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: McPherson v. Voliva | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...club list includes Chicago, University, Attic, Industrial, Commonwealth, Exmoor, Monterey Peninsula Country (California), Mountain Lake (Florida). Other C. I. C. men include James B. Forgan Jr., of the famed Scotch banking family, vice president of Chicago's First National; Alfred Ernest Hamill, of Hathaway & Co. (commercial paper), also of Scotch-Irish banking ancestry; William H. Mitchell of Mitchell, Hutchins & Co. (brokers) ; Dudley Gates, vice president of Marsh & McLennan, Inc. (insurance) ; Henry L. Hanley, executive vice president of North American Light & Power; Arthur Andersen, of Arthur Andersen & Co. (certified public accountants) and William Blair Baggaley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chicago Buyers | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...Telluride was Chase's correspondent, and the man with the drafts was readily identified as Telluride's President Waggoner, his drafts to the extent of $495,000 were quickly honored. Thus the man from Colorado had in his possession nearly a half-million dollars in the form of paper bearing the Chase certification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waggoner's Gesture | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...struck Major John Wood's plane at Needles, killing him. Relatives prayed for the passengers: Mrs. Corina A. Raymond, wife of George B. Raymond, T. A. T. clerk at Glendale, Cal.; Amasa B. McGaffey, rich Albuquerque lumberman; Harris Livermore, Boston shipping man; Mark M. Campbell, Cincinnati paper salesmanager; William Henry Beers of Manhattan, editor of Golf Illustrated. The crew included Pilot Jesse B. Stowe, Co-Pilot Edwin F. A. Dietel, Courier C. F. Canfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: City of San Francisco | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

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