Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sold in the U. S. and Canada, where the favorite pattern is undecorated, embossed, cream-colored. So vital is the U. S. market that when the company's representative in Manhattan, Kennard Laurence Wedgwood, was made chairman in 1930, he stayed right where he was. The only thing which takes Chairman Kennard back to England is the annual stockholders' meeting, tantamount to a family reunion since all stockholders are Wedgwoods...
Century ago the most notable thing about Protestant Christianity was that most of its practitioners throughout the world were optimists who believed in progress, creature comforts, civilization. Such Protestants looked down their noses when Pope Pius IX, speaking for the Roman Catholic Church, denied that it was the duty of Catholicism to come to terms with political or religious liberalism. Today, progress is not so popular a notion, and liberalism has few friends among European religious thinkers...
Boys Town (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In 1917 a young Omaha priest named Father Edward J. Flanagan borrowed $90 to start a unique U. S. institution: Boys Town, Neb., a home for waifs, run according to its founder's belief that there is no such thing as a bad boy. Lately grown acutely conscious of the problems of youth, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer naturally found in Boys Town cinematerial well up to the standard of that supplied by the Russell-Cotes naval training institution in England. The result, in this picture, is a companion piece to Lord Jeff, with Mickey Rooney...
Paris Exposition.* Artist Renau quit his Government job two months ago to do some work of his own. First thing he did was to make 13 photomontages, in some instances blending painting and photography, to illustrate by symbols the 13 points of Premier Juan Negrin's program for Spain...
...most high-handed thing ever handed down." Such was the comment of Garnett C. Skinner last July when a Chicago judge awarded Prima Co., one of five Chicago breweries that survived Prohibition, $568,895 damages because its business had allegedly been run into the ground (TIME, July 26). The damages were against two of Chicago's big banks, First National and Harris Trust & Savings. They had lent Prima Co. a considerable sum,'had become alarmed about their loans, so the Harris Bank suggested that Garnett C. Skinner (a onetime Hearst advertising supervisor) be put in charge...