Word: simeone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them. The move for repeal of the Oath Bill is a battle against obscurantism and indifference. The latter enemy, at any rate, was severely wounded yesterday by the belligerence of the Massachusetts universities, who now, no more than ever, desire to take the road to either Moscow or San Simeon...
...world-spraddling Lever Brothers (Lux, Lifebuoy), was Britain's famed high-wages-&-short-hours Prophet. Procter & Gamble (Ivory) was an early experimenter with the guaranteed work year and employe representation on the board of directors. Last week two other household soap names made social news. One was Samuel Simeon Fels, scholarly septuagenarian maker of Fels Naptha. The other was J. (for James) Crate Larkin, vice president of Buffalo's Larkin Co., Inc., makers of the soap U. S. children sell their parents' friends for the sake of Larkin premiums...
...away some of Stern's best men. Politics rather than personalities were at the bottom of their grudge fight. Out in the open last week it took on new proportions. Besides reprinting the Hearst attack on the New Deal, New Dealer Stern editorially challenged the master of San Simeon thus on the Record's front page: "Let Hearst, arch reactionary, battle the liberal Record at close range, and let Philadelphia citizens be the jury. . . . Philadelphia is one of the few cities in the country where Mr. Hearst has to pay for space to place his views before...
...citizenship. By last week it was time for anyone who contemplated howling about this levy to get it off his chest. One who did so was Publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose California properties include a 50,000-acre estate at Wyntoon, a 270,000-acre estate at San Simeon. According to FORTUNE, Mr. Hearst's income is not $1,000,000 but around $4,000,000, and the idea of passing over a $580,000 income tax check to California was extremely repugnant to the master of $220,000,000 worth of newspapers, magazines, radio stations, cinema companies, real...
...Publisher Hearst to Daily Variety of Hollywood, which had predicted his permanent departure from the State a month ago. "No one does, least of all a native son whose father was a pioneer; but it is utterly impossible for me to remain here and occupy a place like San Simeon on account of the Federal and State tax laws...