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Dates: during 1920-1929
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. . . For some years he has been a sort of press agent for the gas and electric people. . . . According to Charlie they [the Insull group] expect to round up fifty or sixty of the biggest papers. . . ." Mr. Grozier said he thought Mr. O'Malley had been "talking through his hat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Damage Suits | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Were planting sods and shrubs as easy as replacing divots, Newsgatherer Bath might have been on hand last week-end to see a big amphibian plane sweep down Penobscot Bay, scutter into the Morrow cove and give forth some of the most Hearstworthy people of the hour - Mrs. Morrow and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Damage Suits | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

* Because he used yellow paper for some of his editions of the New York World, and because his paper, avoiding contemporary stodginess, sought for "human interest."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Damage Suits | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Said he: "I would like to produce all the plays of Shakespeare in America. Why doesn't some American magnate try some thing different - Hamlet with Chaplin, for instance, accompanied by good jazz music." Elmer L. Rice, author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning play Street Scene, said last week: "After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

When, last week, Knox Hat Co., Inc., announced an offering* of no par, non-voting common at $140 a share, a few U. S. hat wearers remembered the time (1917) when Knox shares were selling at $6. That was during a reorganization period following the retirement (1913) of Colonel Edward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hats & Hatters | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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