Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...covers admired by Subscriber Pease were drawn by Artist Samuel Johnson Woolf.-ED. Mysterious Uncle...
...Author. Samuel Hopkins Adams is a successful hack writer who divides his time between advertising, muckraking and novels. He began as a reporter and feature writer on the New York Sun. A series of articles on quack medicines, which drove several manufacturers out of business, first brought him prominence in 1906. Later he conducted a column in the New York Tribune under the name of Ad-Visor, wherein he sought to expose dishonest advertising. Gimbel Brothers, potent Manhattan department store, brought suit against him when he attacked some of their advertisements. Gimbel Brothers won the suit. Mr. Adams...
...compilation of industrial literature was made by the late Samuel Morse Felton '34, president of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad and a brother of C. C. Felton '27, a former president of Harvard. Samuel Felton was a national figure, during the Civil War and through his acquaintance with President Lincoln and his services to the government was enabled to amass documents, books, and pamphlets of great value to the student of early American industrial development...
...Samuel G. Blythe, famed Saturday Evening Post writer, once wrote: "A gob is a sailor, a man of the American navy, a bluejacket, and the term is self-applied." TIME preferring the authority of Admiral-Subscriber Irwin, will relegate the word to the category of objectionable slang...
After the fall of Cannonism, after a split with Theodore Roosevelt, after a squall with Samuel Gompers, "Uncle Joe" spent eight years (1915-23) in Congress in the subdued role of a mere member. Then he returned to Danville, to see how his Second National Bank* was getting along, to sing his old favorite songs...