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Dates: during 1920-1929
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You will understand that these suggestions are not for making you different but only admiringly for making you more and more what you are.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

The Author. Says Jonathan Norton Leonard, 26: "I haven't lived long enough to have much biography." What biography he has includes the fact that his father, Jonathan Leonard, also writes (Back to Stay and The Meddlers); that Jonathan Jr. studied at schools public as well as private and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Protean Gnome | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

To marry a Tennessee hill girl, one must first have a "homeplace." The $50 a 'legger gave Fayre Jones to keep quiet about dynamiting the Howard house would have sufficed to let him marry Bess Howard, only the money proved counterfeit. What could Jones do but return it? Bess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tennessee Talk | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

The touch of Midas turned things to gold. In the legends of finance the name of J. P. Morgan is supposed to have the same effect. All sorts of stocks are sometimes labelled Morgan stocks, yet no one save the uncommunicative partners at 23 Wall St. really knows exactly what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Twenty Climbers | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

In 1858 the ideas of employe profit-sharing and of inviting consumers to become stockholders were probably not familiar to Surgeon Squibb. There was nothing of that sort in the Navy, very little of it in business. Now that both these policies have become commonplaces, the successors of Surgeon Squibb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Squibb Squib | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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