Word: stills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have read in the last two years, such as Henry C. Link's The Rediscovery of Man, Robert Norwood's Increasing Christhood, etc. Never have there been so many wonderful inspirational books written as recently and religion is sensibly, "gropefully" discussed at every turn. Unfortunately we are still impressed as a nation by education meaning "an accumulation of knowledge of facts" rather than education as "a deepening of consciousness." When our braintrusters can be trusted because they have learned how to live wisely themselves instead of trying to impress us with their "Smart Alec" stuff there will indeed...
...Pepsi-Cola had turned a net profit of $2,500,000, an increase of 76% over its booming 1938 figures. Last week President Mack ventured to say that for the first eight months of this year net profits would pass record 1938 (when the net was $3,240,000). Still selling far below big Coca's bottle volume (the trade's best guess: 18-25% of it), Pepsi-Cola's twelve-ounce bottles (Coca-Cola: six ounces) have done best in New York City. In its first full-page newspaper ads fortnight ago, Pepsi-Cola announced...
...Lewis H. Brown), one-time President H. Edward Manville has held only titles (the most recent: Chairman of the Board) and yachted about for health with his society-conscious wife. Last week he retired. Since his nephew Tommy Manville is an incorrigible playboy and his son Edward Jr. is still a worker in the ranks, no one by the name of Manville now has a titular post in the firm...
...Bemelmans is a brilliant contradiction of family prophecy-a famed artist, author and illustrator of four children's classics* (Hansi, Quito Express et al.), and of two adult volumes (My War With the United States, Life Class) which rank with the most engaging of reminiscences. But Bemelmans is still a Katzenjammer kid. His fame, in fact, rests largely on the fact that he never outgrew his Katzenjammerism; it gives his drawings and prose a special quality of naive sophistication, outlandish imagination, impulsiveness, sly satire...
...latest book Author-Lawyer Train moves to modernize antiquated laws and legal procedure, make justice just without having to outsmart the law. Taking his Prisoner at the Bar (published in 1905 but still in demand) as a basis, he drew again on his police and court experience to produce From the District Attorney's Office, a popular account of justice, how it works and how it fails, with liberal proposals for making it work better...