Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your letter announcing FORTUNE is a masterpiece, and if FORTUNE is anything like TIME in so far as brevity, fearlessness and accuracy is concerned, we want...
...what I do want to say, and say strongly is that I think these stories about Harvard and Princeton proselyting athletes are wrong. Why shouldn't a baseball player sell peanuts on Soldiers Field during the fall? Why should that place Harvard in the position of being accused of subsidizing athletes...
...began by telling his audience that he did not intend to make a formal speech. "I want to make you thoughtful about the care of your health. Begin inquiring as to what way leads to old age: you'll have to fight to reach...
Last week, however, Senator Sheppard changed part of his mind. He still had no thought of trying to legislate against the use of liquor. But he did want to amend the Volstead Act to make the buyer of liquor equally guilty with the seller...
...noisiest of all "rackets," music publishing. It is as funny as a fusion of such wits would lead one to expect. Mr. Lardner has even gone so far as to write several crack-brained chansons which no one will be able to whistle but which everyone will want to hear again. The negligible story tells of a boy (Norman Foster) who leaves Schenectady to write lyrics in Manhattan. His June Moon is a success and, having narrowly escaped marriage with a shapely extortionist (Lee Patrick), he weds the blonde chit whom he first met on the train (Linda Watkins...