Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this parody the opportunity was taken to "razz" many of the pet aversions of the student body as represented by the Froth Staff. It appears that many of these aversions happened to be faculty men-or higher. Not obscene, it was not forbidden the mails, nor was the sale of it in the college prohibited. But-and I have this from a student-the editor was asked to resign from the local literary fraternity, the object of the front-piece caricature threatened libel suits, the wives of the offended faculty threw fits, the faculty itself debated for four hours...
Take, for example, the True Story magazine, kingpin of Bernarr Macfadden's confession group (True Romances, True Experiences, Dream World). Boasting of "the largest newsstand sale in the world," more than 2,000,000 a month, True Story sets the fashion in sex yarns. In May 1919, its first issue appeared with some sober items about Elsie Ferguson, Billie Burke, William S. Hart, Douglas Fair banks. But the meat of the magazine was confession fiction. Of these stories, six contained attempted seductions, three contained successful seductions. A successful one was described as follows: "His kisses intoxicated me. Everything seemed...
Application can be made in writing to James De Normandie, 43 Randolph Hall, or in person at the Lampoon Building between 2 and 3 o'clock today and tomorrow. Stag tickets will be on sale up to the night of the dance itself...
...satisfied with mere control. He is planning an amazing, manipulative coup. Last month he and Lord Dalziel visited Manhattan and quietly applied to list the shares of Wagons-Lits upon the New York Stock Exchange. If that listing is granted, they are reported to plan nothing less than the sale of both Wagons-Lits and "Cooks' " to U. S. investors. Their own holdings were acquired at a price far below the present high value of the shares. Thus, if the U. S. market proves receptive, they can sell at a profit not huge but fabulous...
...callable, and both of them small, one for $10,000,000 and one for $4,000,000. The rest of the $500,000,000 in French bonds owned in the U. S. are non-callable-a grievous slip on the part of the French financiers who negotiated the sale of their bonds. They did not foresee their good fortune in U. S. public favor...