Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solemn pronouncement: "It is something that Dayton will not soon forget." Last week, with the incident five days old, a Dayton department store-one of several that had "played up" the Lindbergh visit in previous self-advertisements-proved Mayor McDonald right by advertising a "spirit of economy" bargain sale with the sarcastic legend: "There will be no disappointments in this demonstration...
...departments, at one time working for the Metropolitan Opera Company. No berserk lion, he will nevertheless have ample opportunity to struggle with a big task. It is the purpose of Opera Comique, Inc., so named in files of proposed corporations in Albany, to raise $6,800,000 by the sale of preferred and common stock. Special charter subscribers who take $4,000 worth of preferred will receive in perpetuity two seats to weekly performances. Charter subscribers who take $2,000 worth of stock will receive one seat in perpetuity. An option has already been taken on a site near Broadway...
...should be suppressed. Recalling H. L. Mencken's coup with "Hatrack" in the American Mercury under similar circumstances, Mr. Sinclair hurried off to Boston, imitated the Mencken tactics of selling his contraband publicly and orating on Boston Common,† and of recent weeks the book has had a sale over which even a Communist might not be able to conceal his satisfaction. The Story of Oil!, like all Mr. Sinclair's stories, has appeared at length in the newspapers. Also it has been picked up and messed with for its political content by Samuel Hopkins Adams, a third...
...from the Mother Country. 4) A conspicuous instance of Canadian talent for steadygoing statesmanship has been the Dominion's handling of the liquor problem. The British North America Act* was so drawn that the Canadian Federal authority has control over liquor manufacture and export, the provincial authorities over sale. Thus a majority of Canadians may not decree that an individual province shall be either Dry or Wet. At one time or another each of the nine Canadian provinces have gone Dry; but the following have resumed liquor sale under restricted government control; Quebec, 1918; British Columbia, 1921; Manitoba...
...British General Staff was, from 1915 to 1918, Major General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice, who may certainly be assumed to know as much about the War as any man alive. Recently this great soldier and tactician picked up and read two fat volumes† about the War from the sale of which Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is drawing considerable pelf. As he read. Sir Frederick apparently began to experience a sense of scorn. Here were errors of fact, sloppiness, perversions of truth and everywhere the pink and soapy touch of superficiality. What...