Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Paul E. Wirt, 85, attorney, inventor of the fountain pen; in Bloomsburg, Pa. Irked by ink constantly spilled on his legal papers, he invented a cumbersome pen, filled by a medicine dropper, on which for a time he held a monopoly...
Last week President Roosevelt passed it along to a highly embarrassed Postmaster General. As best he could, Mr. Farley explained that he had autographed five sheets of Mother's Day stamps, unperforated because his pen caught in the perforations. Four of the sheets he presented to President & Mrs. Roosevelt, Secretary Ickes, Louis McHenry Howe. The fifth he sent to a friend in Norfolk. "That," said he, "was probably a mistake...
...style of the Trade Mediation Department. ... If interested in the trade with Japan, you are solicited." Advertised products include apparently exact Japanese copies of Eastman Kodaks, Thermos Bottles, Mazda Lamps. But Osaka's ingenious K. Mori & Co. have thought of something smarter than just aping a Waterman Pen. Proudly their advertisement touts...
What the buyer wants, K. Mori & Co. feel, is a fountain pen so good that it will inspire awe. Even Japan's Imperial House is now being dragged into industrial promotion, though as yet His Majesty the Son of Heaven is sacrosanct. Latest pictures show the Divine Emperor's popular brother Prince Chichibu seated grinning in a Datsun (see cut). Screams a recent Datsun advertisement: "FIRST NO LAST." This peculiar sales argument is stated more fully thus: FIRST Motor Car Produced in Japan In Performance and Quality In Public Favor...
...Western Trails Subscriber-Convict Capone may read "Maverick Law," "Double-Barreled Decoy," "Branded with Lead," "Trigger Tempest." He may correspond and exchange cowboy songs with Miss Billie Arnette of Troy, Ohio, who is 5 ft. 7 in. with light brown wavy hair and grey eyes and belongs to the "Pen Pards" of Western Trails. By answering advertisements he may learn to play the guitar in ten minutes, break himself of the tobacco habit, sell tear-gas pencils to his friends, discover how to have a baby, learn to be a Secret Service...