Word: potashes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compare office methods of today with those of a quarter of a century ago. But commercialism ceases to be a blessing when it enters other fields besides its own; art, religion, education; in short, the general tenor of life, should be closed to its influence. Someone--either Mr. Potash or Mr. Perlmutter--once said that the golden rule was "business before pleasure". The aphorism could be expanded to "business before, perhaps after, but certainly not with, pleasure," he dollar kings should have the grace to leave their financial acumen outside of the church, the schoolhouse, the theatre, and the drawing...
Simultaneously the U. S. Department of Commerce announced and deplored last week that no less than seven other paramount commodities imported by the U. S. to a total volume of one billion dollars yearly are similarly being restricted in the countries of origin: coffee, potash, mercury, long staple cotton, iodine, nitrates, and sisal hemp...
...Potash and Perlmutter-Detectives-Described by the title...
...Potash and Perlmutter-Detectives. For years they have been as Montague Glass first made them-contentious, lovable, inseparable. Their latest venture is into the dangerous private detective business. "That business is no business at all," decides Abe when he finds himself encumbered with an armful of revolvers. He would rather "sink in his liabilities than be shot by his assets." But Mawruss insists upon going through with it. In handling a Long Island jewel theft case, they flop from the distinguished station of international crime experts to the ignoble confinement of the local gaol. The cause of their downfall: softheartedness...
Certainly Secretary Hoover, prompted by Dr. Klein, is making a wrathful gesture at the French-German potash monopolists. But at least for the nonce it seems as though he will have to reinforce it by more than $100,000 of research. He might threaten some international trade retaliation...