Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard repaid the generosity of these men? Has the University given them an adequate training on the basis of which they have been able to go out into the world, handle big business and government? Undoubtedly it can be said that they have "Received their money's worth". They have been given the opportunity to get the best that there was or is in the United States in the way of education...
...nucleus of next year's staff will be Bill O'Connor, Al Northrop, Bill Schmidt, Bert Litman, Emile Dubiel, Henry Marey, Charley Worth, and Bob Woodward. These runners can not be disregarded by any team...
...advertising" to censor the commercial announcements of all its members. Hired as censor-in-chief was Edward H. Gardner, onetime professor of Advertising & Marketing at University of Wisconsin, more recently a pundit for J. Walter Thompson Co. During the year, Censor Gardner reported, drug manufacturers submitted $70,000,000 worth of advertising copy for approval. The advertised products ranged from Absorbine Jr. to Zymole Trokeys. A number of newspapers and magazines and the Mutual and Yankee radio networks, boasted the drug business censor, agreed to disseminate no advertising which he did not approve. Blacklisted with no appeal are drugs which...
...policy holders and beneficiaries. Total assets of U. S. life companies increased 36% from $17,482,000,000 at the end of 1929 to $23,828,000,000 at the end of 1935. Some 63,000,000 U. S. policyholders own more than $100,000,000,000 worth of insurance, which is about 70% of the world total. Only a few relatively small companies failed in the six lean years. Even in the worst years 7% of the U. S. national income was delivered into the hands of insurance companies in the form of premiums. And to the delight...
...supporting cast take the picture out from under his nose, as Edward Everett Horton, the Yacht Club Boys, and most of all, Cab Calloway and his band, do in this picture. If the Cab and his band had had more of a part the whole thing might have been worth seeing. As it is he appears only a few short times and you live in hopes he'll come back, despising Al Jolson and the petty machinations of the plot sequence for keeping him away...