Word: serials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting was variously garbled, camouflaged or ignored in press dispatches. The plain fact was that Mr. Coolidge raked the correspondents over the coals. He said that their "hot weather reporting" was pretty poor stuff. He suggested that some of them might well give their daily reports a serial title: "Faking with the President." He intimated that it would be better not to send out fake reports oftener than every two weeks- not to report that he was expecting an anthracite miners' strike since he was not; not to report that he was going to call a conference of miners...
Recently, the Company decided to own its service stations and thus be able to give service on its products during their entire life. A subsidiary called the Mack Trucks Realty Co. was therefore organized. It will be financed by a $3,000,000 serial 6% note issue. But, meanwhile, the parent Company needs additional capital for expansion. Accordingly, all stockholders of record July 20 will be given the privilege of subscribing to one new share of common for every five shares held, at $100 a share. With the stock already selling at $184 a share, this means that...
Collier's Weekly has adapted the simple-minded pleasures of this game to literature by beginning in its Jan. 10 number a serial entitled Bobbed Hair, a novel by 20 authors...
...University of Virglnia, therefore strongly favor Harvard. Although the Virglnians defeated Hampden Sidney College in their first game last Saturday 13 to 9, they failed to display anything threatening. Outweighed and, until the final period, outplayed, the Virginia team saved itself from defeat only by opening up an serial attack a few minutes before the referee's final whistle blew. They will be outweighed when they come up against the Crimson at the end of the week, and will very likely again resort to the passing game...
...chatty story of a woman's life, a rather unusual woman, told with utter frankness. There is no false attempt at cleverness. Sentiment has its due place. Curiously enough, Mrs. Daviess says that she has received more letters from men than from women in response to the serial publication of her narrative-and that most of them have been remedies for rheumatism...