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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writing for the New Yorker, Manhattan sophistisheet, Mr. Woollcott also speaks over radio station WOR, calling himself the "Town Crier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pure Fiction | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...approached by two young men about to start a new business. They wanted him to buy some of their stock at $25 the share. Looking down his straight strong nose, Banker Forgan declared he could buy no stock. Said he: "I'm just a poor mon and I wor-rk for a sollery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 29, 1929 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...addition to its department store business, L. Bamberger & Co. operates Station WOR, over which it has long broadcast itself as "one of America's great stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bamberger to Macy | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

That portion of the receiving public within range of Station WOR (Newark) has but to set its dials before going to bed and it is awakened at seven next morning by the clanging of a huge and strident alarm clock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indoors | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...Newark Y. M. C. A. In the January issue of Popular Science Mr. Bagley wrote: "Mine is the world's largest gymnasium class. Just how many members it has I do not know. There are 50,000 anyway, because I have received letters from that many. At the WOR station it is estimated that letters are ordinarily received from less than 10% of the listeners-in to any broadcast feature. So there may be a halfmillion. . . ." He stated that he had read all 50,000 letters, replied to many. A Massachusetts mother wrote: "I used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indoors | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

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