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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might be interesting to note that San Diego was the pioneer city of the west coast in inaugurating and carrying out an intensive community advertising campaign. San Diego, since her first campaign, has spent approximately $150,000.00 annually on community advertising, with the result that her population has increased over 100% with a corresponding increase in industrial development and realty values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...House. It was the last state function of the year. Marching into the drawing room, President Coolidge gave his arm to Mrs. Dawes, while Mrs. Kellogg stepped up to accompany the Vice President, and on down the line. . . . Governor & Mrs. John H. Trumbull and Miss Florence Trumbull, of Connecticut, spent a night at the White House. Old friends, they were cheering, easily entertained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...eyes" of the Battle Fleet, whose size is fixed. He tried to tell the country that it spends as much on candy in one year as the Navy wants to spend in nine years to make the world safe for candy-eaters. He pointed at the billions spent in U. S. beauty parlors. He invoked ancestors. He hailed posterity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Little Big-Navy | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...Middle West on behalf of the Associated Harvard Clubs. Mr. Bingham will speak at the Harvard Clubs of six cities concerning athletics at the University. He leaves Sunday night, March 4, for Chicago, where he will talk at a luncheon on Monday. The following four days will be spent speaking at dinners in Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh. He will end his trip with a luncheon at Buffalo on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BINGHAM LEAVES MARCH 4 ON SPEAKING TOUR OF SIX CITIES | 2/25/1928 | See Source »

Charlie Molina, 17, of Boston, Mass., needed a haircut so visibly that his school principal gave him 35? to get one. He increased his capital to $1 by playing a slot machine, spent the $1 at the cinema, had his father cut his hair. The school principal had the owner of the slot machine arrested and convicted for running a lottery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Yegg | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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