Word: sans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mitted Having by taken Subscriber note of the Hennessley* I herewith submit : Save TIME- read it ! MRS. J. H. FRANSEN Whittier, Calif. Not bad. - ED. Sirs: In the matter of "better slogans" - A wish, a drop of ink, a dime† Remitted weekly, procures Eternal TIME. CHARLES E. KEITH San Francisco, Calif. Sirs: . . . Suggested slogan : Queen Elizabeth said : "All my possessions for one moment of time." (Supposed to be her dying words.) F. ADAMS Cambridge, Mass. Sirs: "If you take the time to read TIME you save time." Don't send the $10 to Whittlesey, send...
...San Francisco the western office of Doremus & Co., advertising agency, was a "madhouse." The Western Power Corp. had entrusted its advertising of a $10,000,000 bond issue to this office, for simultaneous publication in Manhattan, Chicago and Boston. That was not unusual. Doremus & Co. are the largest financial advertising agency in the country. They have 324 accounts, practically every one a potent banking or investment house, such as Morgan & Co., Speyer & Co., Guaranty Trust Co., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., General Motors Acceptance Corp. One does not hold such customers by ordinary service. They want arch-service...
That day in San Francisco, just a few hours before the power corporation advertisement was to appear, certain facts developed that demanded changes in it. Normal telegraph instruction to the newspapers that were to carry the advertisement would have been too complicated and slow. It was impossible...
...this emergency a fertile-minded office man bethought him of telephotography. This is the process of sending pictures by way of electric wires, and the Bell System had just recently installed the needed apparatus in San Francisco and other major cities. If Doremus & Co.'s revised advertisements were set up and a clean proof photographed, the Bell Co. would deliver exact reproductions where wanted. This was done, and the advertisement appeared according to original schedule. Doremus & Co.'s president, Economist Clarence Walker Barren, was pleased, advertised on his own account the arch-service of his office...
...ease and economy. Intimate of the Russian Realists and Symbolists, in all his long writing career he has joined no "school." Russians extol him, but in English have appeared only The Village, in which he flays the grimy mouzhik, Dreams of Chang, which contains the sardonic "The Gentlemen from San Francisco," and this Mitya's Love...