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...amended the law dealing with changes in city government to stipulate that any change in Indianapolis could not become operative until the present group of city officials complete their elective terms. However, City Manager adherents hope to have this legislative action (which was pushed through purely as a life-saver for the city hall officials) declared unconstitutional. They talked also of bringing impeachment proceedings against Mayor John L. Duvall. The Mayor, elected in 1925 with the support of the Ku Klux Klan, will shortly go on trial, along with the City Comptroller, his brother-in-law, for political corruption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Under New Management | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...tastes. No longer does a good, old fashioned, out and out murder whet the public appetite; we must have infinite complications--simple enough to be comprehended, but spicy--everything from Pig Women to perjury. Even the "eternal triangle" which seemed as permanent as a Platonic idea, is losing its saver. Let us have more pepper in the sauce. Let us make each breakfast when we read the morning papers a 100 per cent Roman-American holiday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/10/1927 | See Source »

Another Life Saver. When cigarets taste nasty, when the bouquet of gin lingers, when gum drops cloy-it is soothing to champ at a hard mint tablet. Neither Life Savers Inc. nor other makers of hard candy lozenges flavored with aromatic oils-mint, cloves, pepper-have stressed in their advertising those demands for their products. None the less, they have profited therefrom, Life Savers Inc. most of all. This company is even listed on the Manhattan Stock Exchange. It has 8,000 jobbers and dealers; it makes fruit lozenges, which lack the famed Life Saver "hOle";* and shortly it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business Notes, Sep. 6, 1926 | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

...Miss Brewster's Millions" does affect one. At least it affects staid Cantabridgians who invade the gilded realms of alabaster cherubims and sera--so forth and so long enough to wonder why garlic never loses its saver and to smile, laugh, weep at the perils and pleasures of Bebe Daniels of the Enterprise Productions and a pleasant, very pleasant smile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/30/1926 | See Source »

...acquire the use of it in France and found it both convenient and not too hard to learn. Its proponents argue for it that no country that adopted the metric system has ever abandoned it, that it is a great aid to commerce, that it is a great time-saver and that it would save $800,000,000* a year in the U. S. in educating children because of its greater simplicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: World Quart | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

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