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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cinema industry was astonished. Producers marveled that so spry a product of the peepul as James John Walker should have failed to appreciate how dangerous it would be for cinemakers to provoke the prejudices of their gum-chewing public, by showing political bias on the screen. They marveled that so shrewd a person as Mayor Walker should have underestimated the shrewdness of the cinemen. The Messrs. Schenck and Mayer called Mayor Walker's warnings "extremely amusing." Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays ignored the incident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Walker's Warning | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...John Gies of the Department of Biological Chemistry at Teachers College, directed experiments on the dietetic advantages of intarvin, through twelve generations of white rats. Further experiments produced the new food containing "certain valuable ingredients which are otherwise impalatable to the diabetic." So proud was Teachers College of the product that it procured a protective patent; established thereby a precedent for itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Intarvin | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...could not have pointed with pride to the texture, the shape, the odor of her product. It would have been coarse, ill-shapen, irritating to the skin, offensive to the nose. Guests would have shunned the White House bathrooms. Servants would have departed in disgust and fury rather than wash dishes with thrifty, housewifely soap. Wisely, Mrs. Coolidge chose to purchase soap made of the finest oils, boiled in steam-heated, 1,000,000-lb. urns, purified of complexion-destroying acids, perfumed with flowered scents, shaped to beguile both hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Colgate-Palmolive-Peet | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...approved the plans of Studebaker for a merger of the two firms; President Myron E. Forbes of Fierce-Arrow called for a meeting of the stockholders on July 25, writing them that it would be for their own good to consent to the plans. No matter how good the product, a large organization is necessary for success in the automobile business today? was the keynote of President Forbes' letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Motor News | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...owned, with the 86-year old U. S. owned Ansco Photoproducts, Inc. to form Agfa Ansco Corp.; neither did you give, in your article headed "Vanity Kodaks" on p. 45, June 4 issue, proper credit to Ansco for pioneering colored cameras three years ago, when Ansco, too, named this product "Vanity Ansco," available, then as now, in 5 distinct shades for milady's approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 25, 1928 | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

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