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...consumption of pleasurable goods. His own two major quotas, he specified, were 36,000 bottles of wine and 150,000 strong cigars. Statisticians do not know how many inhabitants of the U. S. consumed the 97,176,607,484 cigarets manufactured in 1927. Women have come to swell the legion, and for the first time in history the 1927 advertising budgets contained provisions for direct appeals to them. (Marlboro cigarets pushed the first overt advertising campaign for women smokers.) Production of cigarets last year was more than double that of 1920 and six times as great as that...
...Tutor. Swell. . . . I am growing tired...
...Pride swelled the bosoms of the publishers of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Transcript, the United States Daily and sundry other newspapers last week when statements by the State Department were made public by the Appropriations Committee of the House. The State Department had agitated to have its allowance for newspaper subscriptions raised from $700 per annum to $1,200. Particularly did che bosoms of Publisher Adolph S. Ochs and Business Manager Louis Wiley swell, because, concerning their newspaper, to which they have tried so hard to give unique completeness, the State Department said: "The paper...
...revise the picture "King of Kings", and in his foreword obligingly "exculpate the Jews of guilt for the death of Jesus," and put the responsibility on Roman hirelings. As a historian Mr. DcMille is both magnanimous and tactful. It is an act that should make the wallets of exhibitors swell with good feeling. And Premier Mussolini is hardly likely to protest in favor of the newly accused culprits. The B'nai Brith magazine praises the "fine sensitiveness of the leaders" in passing such an edict. Only the captious will recall the coincidence that the majority of these leaders are themselves...
...another foreign war ? My late husband, the Rev. Jason Parks, was a saintly man devoted to works of peace, and I should not be properly cherishing his mem ory did I not write this letter to you, pro testing with all my might that any organization which proposes to swell its membership with the veterans of future foreign wars should be forthwith abolished! ADA JASON PARKS...