Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swedish sportsmanship in the course of a speech to visiting American athletes. I am convinced that the article in question did you a great injustice. I find that you made no speech. It appears that the article was based on the account of one of your guests at a tea party given by you and at which there were more Swedes than Americans present. It seems that during this party you suggested to the American athletes present that they familiarize themselves with the different customs that prevail in Sweden, urged them to deport themselves with dignity and told them that...
...stroke of merchandising genius because: 1) most people are honest, would feel badly if they did not eventually buy enough goods to earn the premium; and 2) the promise of getting something, for what appears to be nothing has an almost irresistible appeal. Within ten years Jewel Tea, by now a corporation branching far afield from Chicago, was taking in $1,000,000 annually. Last year, still operating on the simple principle of presenting the housewife with a good coffee pot, a good toaster or some Haviland china with her first order, Jewel Tea rolled up sales...
...year before the Century's turn a Chicago tea salesman named Frank Vernon Skiff who had saved $700 started a wagon route on his own, peddling dry groceries from door to door. He peddled for two years before he hit on a way of making his business different from any of the other hundreds of mobile stores weaving in & about Chicago. It was merely the hoary premium plan?with a twist. His brother-in-law thought it was a pretty good idea and they set up "Jewel Tea Co., Skiff & Ross, Proprietors." The idea: give housewives the premium first...
...clock every good diplomat should be at the tea table. At 5 o'clock one afternoon last week five diplomats were sitting down in the State Department to pen and ink. There were Dr. Cosme de la Torriente. Cuban Secretary of State, Dr. Manuel Marquez Sterling, Cuban Ambassador to Washington, and Secretary Hull. There also were Assistant Secretary Sumner Welles and Jefferson Caffery, the past and present Ambassadors to Cuba. Their purpose was to set their hands and seals upon the first reciprocal trade agreement negotiated under the new tariff bargaining law (TIME, June 18). A few minutes later...
...wicket cleverly for 49 runs more. When the last Australian wicket fell, the total was 701 runs, just short of a test match record. After England was all out for 321, Australia piled up 327 more. England came out for her second innings needing 707 runs to tie. Tea was taken with three wickets down for 85 runs. An hour later the last six wickets had fallen and Australia had the match...