Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...32nd floor of the Empire State Building. As chairman of the advisory committee of the Legion of Decency which is making cinema companies toe the mark (TIME, June 11, et seq.), Mr. Smith called for a copy of the law Mr. Burke considered so exemplary. It read: "A person who willfully and lewdly exposes his person, or the private parts thereof, in any public place or in any other place where others are present, or procures another so to expose himself is guilty of a misdemeanor...
Thereupon the four-time Governor of New York proposed a new law which he expected the New York Legislature to pass and other State Legislatures to imitate. The Smith proposal: "A person who in any place willfully exposes his person . . . in the presence of two or more persons of the opposite sex whose persons ... are similarly exposed, or who aids or abets any such act, or who procures another so to expose his person ... or who as owner, manager, lessee, director, promoter or agent, or in any other capacity, hires, leases or permits the land, building or premises of which...
Malaria is stoically accepted as the recurrent curse of the Southern states. Last year South Carolina had more than its normal share of the disease and in Camden County, N. C. a particularly malignant form laid some 500 persons low in two months. These outbreaks, however, did not perturb the rest of the nation. People know that only mosquitoes carry malaria infection from one person to another. Hence those who live in malarial districts shield themselves from mosquitoes by screening their windows, putting netting over their beds and dosing themselves with quinine. The more foresighted prevent the breeding of mosquitoes...
...Ford's indifference to his competitors is no pose. His sole interest is in building the best car he can for the money. To him merchandising is merely a necessary nuisance. If a person chooses to buy a Chevrolet or a Plymouth, the loss, Mr. Ford feels, is the buyer's, not his. Even the staggering deficits rolled up in the Depression-$132,000,000-do not bother him. It is, to Henry Ford, merely money "spent...
...when Henry Ford steps to a drawing board or tinkers with a Ford part the years drop away from his thin shoulders, and he seems a different person from the aging man who has an earthy platitude for every interviewer. Ruralist and antiquarian though he has become, the Henry Ford who in 1934 laid out $20,000,000 for plant expansion when Big Business was shivering for reassurances or who boldly announced that he would spend nearly $500,000,000 for wages and materials in 1955, is the Henry Ford who motorized...