Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Someone has just called my attention to the footnote in an Oct. 15 article in TIME which characterizes Tower Magazines as the "gum-chewers'" magazines...
...find, upon an examination of the respective gum advertisements of TIME and Tower up to August 1934, that we have both convinced gum manufacturers of a worthwhile potential of "gum-chewers" in our respective readerships. You carried 1,144 lines and we carried 2,145 lines of gum advertising which definitely gives us the lead. So that perhaps we ought to cede you the position of the gumchewers magazine and we will take the post of the gumchewingest magazines...
Promotion Manager Tower Magazines, Inc. New York City...
Last night in the Lowell House Tower Room, Arthur Hammond, A.R.P.S. of "American Photography" spoke on "Pictorial Methods" and illustrated his points with carefully selected prints from the best of American photographers...
...Majesty. Three years ago George V is supposed to have persuaded James Ramsay MacDonald to desert his Labor colleagues of a lifetime and become the vote-getting figurehead of the so-called National (but in fact Conservative) Government (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931). Always the King is represented as a tower of moral strength, aiding his conscience-torn Scottish Prime Minister to decide between Labor and the Nation. Last week this pristine royal legend was rudely spattered. At it gnomish, crippled Philip Snowden, splenetic Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, heaved the clods of his second volume of autobiography...