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Word: wiseness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides running the union. President Kaplan heads a firm which sells projection equipment. The wise theatre owner knows that by patronizing the Kaplan firm he will have no labor troubles in his cinema house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Leeches | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...into zinc mines in Poland, a manganese concession in Russia. In 1919, six years out of Yale, Son Harriman formed W. A. Harriman & Co. which conducted a large-scale investment banking business. Hard-working young Mr. Harriman, attractive and sociable (two years ago he married Marie Norton Whitney, art-wise first wife of his turf friend Cornelius Vanderbilt ["Sonny"] Whitney), did not make a raging success of the firm. Its financial bulwarking made it an appropriate party last year to a merger with Brown Bros. & Co., forming Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. Another Harriman venture is Harriman & Co., a small firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Great Shoes Shuffled | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...only one fox stomach were found quail remains; small, nongame birds were in only six. The Bureau is now examining the stomachs of 50 foxes killed in the spring, paying $1 per stomach. Virginia Negroes, wise as Uncle Remus, have always known that of all foods Brer Fox prefers Brer Rabbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: What Foxes Eat | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

...politicians stampeding for seats on a Wet bandwagon; a lengthy leading article about the Bonus Army's march to Washington, which occurred in June; an article by Congressman La Guardia telling why he fought the Sales Tax last April; a refutation of the theory that all bankers are all-wise; an estimate of Clarence Darrow ("Portrait of a Great Actor") by Louis Adamic; an account of the witlessness of book publishers; a behind-scenes political review by Robert S. Allen, one of the authors of The Washington Merry-Go-Round; a dispassionate report of Harlan, Ky. mine disorders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No Tabloid | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise LL.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: College Boards | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

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