Word: patents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Audiences never tire of talking about Britain's No. 1 conductor. His father was Sir Joseph Beecham, an amateur veterinarian who made a fortune with patent pills, earned a baronetcy with his many philanthropies and still left plenty for his son to squander on music. Sir Thomas once went bankrupt for the sake of music in England. At a conservative estimate his losses have amounted to over...
...chiefs of the Noble Savage type bitterly and contemptuously complain, "Our Emperor is a businessman!" They should thank Ethiopia's stars. The astounding marvel is that Africa's unique Museum of Peoples has produced a businessman-with high-pressure publicity, compelling sales talk, the morals of a patent medicine advertisement, a grasp of both savage and diplomatic mentality, and finally with plenty of what Hollywood calls IT. The Emperor was "too smart" only once in 1935, when he tried by granting the Rickett Concession to Standard Oil to embroil the U. S. directly in Ethiopia's defense...
Helen Hayes' father was a man named Brown who did a number of things, none of them very profitably. For a brief time he worked as a clerk in the Washington Patent Office. His daughter was born the first autumn of the 20th Century on Washington's P Street, Northwest. Her education was at parochial schools. Abetted by a mother with theatrical ambitions, Helen Brown made her Broadway debut in 1909 in Old Dutch. Elders like Lew Fields, Vernon Castle and John Bunny crowded her out of the press notices. Not until five years later...
Tide, marketing tradesheet. investigated the drugstore buying habits of Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, reported: "Mr. Farley buys Squibb toothpaste. He also buys Squibb Shaving Cream. He's a heavy user of Listerine and pretty regular on Wrigley's (Spearmint). He never buys patent medicines...
...Weed bought his chain from a small chain company, of which Mr. Lashar was sales manager. In 1915 Mr. Lashar, backed by William T. Morris of New York and Wilmot F. Wheeler of Bridgeport, took over the tire-chain business. Mr. Weed retained an interest in the company, collected patent royalties. By that time the War was on, business was good, and in 1916 Mr. Lashar purchased Parsons Non-Skid Co. Ltd., of London, became international leader in his special field. American Chain made all kinds of chains, including chains for anchors. With German U-boats creating an abnormal demand...