Word: text
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tariff Law. A staggering shock jarred the nerves of U. S. businessmen in Paris: the French government published the full text of its new general tariff law, wherein it was found that $80,000,000 worth of goods sold by the U. S. in France was subject to a maximum duty ranging from 100% to 13% higher than formerly...
...hundred and ten text pages, plus some advertisements and a colored cover has just issued from the Doubleday, Page presses in the shape of a magazine called Personality. Three hundred and seventy-seven copies of this sample have been printed and distributed to friends of the publishers...
Sirs: ... I object to TIME, in its present policy and makeup, on four counts : 1) It is 11% in. long. 2) Nine-point type* is used in the text whereas brevier is highly preferable. 3) There are 48 pages to TIME. There are items of sufficient interest to fill out one more page, and 49 pages, being 7x7, would be especially lucky. 4) The page numbers in the advertising sections are at the bottom of the pages, though they are at the top of other pages. . . . H. LINCOLN HOUGHTON Singapore...
...Jackson in an embarrassing position, inasmuch as he had (in 1926) denied that Mr. Stephenson had given him $2,500 or any other amount for his gubernatorial campaign. When the Stephenson expose began, Governor Jackson was in Kansas, where he occupied a pulpit and gave a sermon on the text: What is a, man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? After the sermon the choir sang a hymn: "It must be told." Then back to Indianapolis went the Governor and, at first refusing to comment on the Stephenson check, later gave an explanation...
...epigrams which touched below the surface, "the one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." President Lowell in his Baccalaureate Sermon to the graduating class in Appleton Chapel yesterday forsaw the possibility of such tragedy when he took for his text the pessimistic words of the Preacher and King of Jerusalem, "What profit hath a man of all his labor that he taketh under the sun?" But the President spoke well for the present as well, when he advised against future disappointment with a study of the nature of man's labor and the profit...