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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cattleland in the Argentine and 9,000,000 acres in Australia, where "Bovril" is the slang equivalent for applesauce or baloney. Last week, Bovril, Ltd. of London launched a new company called Bovril of America, Inc. and appointed William C. Scull of Camden, N. J. to organize large scale distribution of Bovril...
...illustrations. So strong was this prejudice in the little girl that once when her sister was reading a volume devoid of such attractions she crawled off down a hole in search of a white rabbit she had seen. Thus was Alice sent into wonderland, and thus did Lewis Carrol scale the heights upon which Charles Dodgson has faltered...
...plight of Town Topics is ignominious compared to its flamboyant rascality of three decades ago, so is Editor Augustus Ralph Keller colorless, small-scale compared to the vivid colonel. Editor Keller is already awaiting trial on a charge of criminal libel. Col. Mann had the temerity to sue the late Publisher Peter F. Collier and Editor Norman Hapgood of Collier's for libel. As a result of that fruitless sortie, the colonel was prosecuted on a charge of perjury for his barefaced denial that the "O. K., W. D. M." at the bottom of a document was his signature. Famed...
...different colleges elect their own officers, and students take a greater interest in their educational and social affairs. The organization in the old form of colleges makes for greater unity because a smaller body is concerned. Democratic practices often fail if they are applied on too large a scale. Students here will find it to their own advantage to organize on college lines and carry out University projects through the co-ordination and action of their college governments. The change could be affected by action of the student council and the student affairs committee with its co-operating student committee...
...industry itself so compelling that present owners might be excited to the pitch of buying new cars instead of hoarding their money or worrying about their banked savings. It was just possible that the public might replace its doddering pieces of locomotion with new models on a grand scale...