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Word: whats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wheeling & Lake Erie is, roughly, an X-shaped road, with one arm running from Toledo to Wheeling, W. Va., the other from Cleveland to Zanesville, Ohio, the two crossing at Brewster, Ohio. The Van Sweringens, who consider the Wheeling & Lake Erie a desirable unit in their proposed Fourth Trunk Line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Brothers v. Brothers | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Editor George Horace Lorimer's Saturday Evening Post has a weekly circulation of three million. Editor Ray Long's Cosmopolitan (owned by Publisher William Randolph Hearst) has a monthly circulation of 1,620,000. Lately these two able men have been engaged in a little game of magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lorimer v. Long | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

The U. S. Drys, Consolidated, particularly the Anti-Saloon League and the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, were carefully watched to see if the President's broadening of the commission's scope would cause them to protest that their special handi work was not receiving its proper share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Commission | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

An interviewer last week asked Dr. McBride if he thought it would be fitting for the Hoover commission to investigate the Anti-Saloon's treasure chest to see to what extent the League is financed by persons who profit from Prohibition. Dr. McBride replied: "The commission will have matters of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Commission | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

"What is so terrible about it?" expostulates her mother. "The shore is wide enough for us to pass by her. . . . You are already jealous of Madame Grill. But, my dear Bella, your husband is after all not a man of that sort. . . . You are the Baroness von Buttlär and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Champagne & Potato-Soup | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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