Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...left to the States to levy*and because it irks him to see fortunes made in the West and taken East to be spent, enjoyed, inherited. Lately, however, Iowa has favored repealing the inheritance tax, too. Pressure from behind as well as above persuaded Mr. Green to accept a post which he refused last year. Awaiting the Senate's confirmation in his new office, Mr. Green told the House that "in the anticipated event there is much to regret in many ways...
Curtis Publications (Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman, Ladies' Home Journal, New York Evening Post, Philadelphia Public Ledger...
...usually happens, thoughtful persons present held their tongues-for a while. But soon (next day) everyone was joining in. The Representative train, en route to supply moneys for the Treasury and Post Office Departments, but stalled by a proposed amendment to prohibit poisonous denaturants in industrial alcohol, became clamorous. The amendment had been offered by Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland, who cited the facts that 10% of all industrial alcohol in the U. S. has annually been leaking into beverage channels under Prohibition; that there were 11,700 deaths in 1926 from poisonous alcohol...
Everyone reads periodicals and everyone reflects that income from subscriptions and advertisements must be profitable. The nickel paid for a copy of the Saturday Evening Post does not pay for the cost of paper alone. But the $8,000 that the magazine charges for a full-page advertisement in black and the $11,500 for four-color pages yield profits which financiers are beginning to exploit. Each reader may be a prospect for the sale of such securities, just as almost every user of electricity in the U. S. has been offered investments in his "home" public utility...
...publisher of the Ladies' Home Journal, Saturday Evening Post, etc., etc.) uses pretty-girl covers for his magazines. Such covers are usually inspired by pretty models. Such a model is Miss Peggy Burns of Philadelphia, Pa., who last week on her 21st birthday inherited $500,000 from her grandfather. Said she : "I am not going to quit work. I like my work." One of her first acts after receiving the inheritance was to collect $100 from an artist for posing for the cover of the current Ladies' Home Journal...