Word: talks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clubs, they discussed their problems between speeches and ballotings. Mrs. Ora H. Snyder, Chicago, head of a chain of candy stores, had opportunity to compare business methods with Miss Elsie Flake, "sandwich queen" of Winston-Salem, N. C. Miss Marion McClench, prime insurance saleswoman of Detroit, could talk shop with Miss Ella Schroeder, successful diamond merchant of Cincinnati. Tampa's Postmistress Elizabeth Rainard had a look at Miss Emma Coldiron of Walla Walla, Wash., operator of a de luxe bus line. Great was the applause when Mrs. Eva Hunt Dockery, of Boise, Idaho, definitely predicted that in ten years...
...caught and accumulated on the tail, however. Came an hour when the Angeleno wabbled so badly she could not stay under her refueling plane (piloted by Paul Whittier, local millionaire). The "tough hombres" descended, went to a hospital, slept. When they awoke, bedside microphones were ready to let them talk to their public...
Eugene S. Kilgore of San Francisco scolded doctors for talking too much about heart disease. Such talk frequently makes people worry about their hearts, and the worry frequently disturbs the heart or circulatory system...
...Eden jor One, Harper's, 1927, $2; Red Pavilion, Harper's, 1926, $2) of the Chicago Daily News went to interview Market Operator Arthur W. Cutten. His mission was apropos of nothing but Mr. Cutten's position as famed Bull. He found Mr. Cutten easy to talk to, difficult to interview...
Springing directly from the Silent Cinema, the Talking Cinema is controlled mainly by strong Silent Cinemen. Great film names, with sound and without, are Fox Film Corp., Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp., Warner Bros., United Artists. Yet one potent Talking Cinema company backs its speaking present with no silent past. This company is opulent, many-branched Radio Corp. of America. In Photophone it has its own talking mechanism. In RKO Productions, Inc., it has its own production and distribution company. In General Electric and Westinghouse Electric it has tremendous laboratory resources. During 1929-30 there will be made 30 full-length...