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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feelings-I have the most tremendous pride and hopefulness for America) and that I was jailed in Boston. A little while later I received an angry letter from my aunt, la Comtesse de Gabriac, saying that the Paris Herald had also reported me to be a jailbird. Simultaneously came various letters from California kidding me unmercifully about the same story carried by papers out there. The clipping from TIME was the fatal straw, and realizing that TIME will reach as nation-wide a public as all these other papers combined, I rely upon your courtesy to correct this mistake...
...taking the public into partnership. Corporations that have long been publicly -owned are undertaking new financing for expansion purposes. And the merger trend-outstanding movement in current industry-continues as an important element in Industry's insatiable appetite for money. Of last week's new deals of various kinds, the following were of particular interest...
...insides are largely for patent medicines and other low-class advertising, the patent insides paper is somewhat looked down upon. Western Newspaper Union supplies some 10,000 papers, some with boiler plate, some with patent insides. It also prints several minor Chicago papers (including the smaller Negro organs) and various trade-papers and magazines. An electrotype and stereotype mat service for national advertising in country papers is another important Western Newspaper Union activity...
...dummy three-story building had been made of wood and canvas. Inside were gathered ten young naval cadets, several of them dressed as clowns, and four firemen, two of whom impersonated a bride and groom. They played comic parts in the various rooms, waiting for the red lights which would cause the building to seem on fire. They would then be "res-cued" by the fire company's expert ladder-work. Next the building would be set really ablaze, to display the fire company's hose-work...
...Crawley-Button-($4.50). Although this is primarily a scholarly book, it contains points such as the following for man-in-the-street's consideration: "The attaching of a market-value to a woman has tended to raise the standard of female chastity." "There is no doubt that the various forms of love-sexual, parental, paternal, filial, and social-are kindred emotions." "Other things being equal, the savage regards the satisfaction of the sexual instinct exactly as he regards the satisfaction of hunger and thirst." In giving psychological data on chastity, kissing, love, obscenity, orgy, oath, curse, blessing, Author Crawley...