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Word: would (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kept them on defensive work all week, but when, from his movable bed on the sidelines, he saw them scored on, he decided the best defence was attack. Carideo and Savoldo did what was expected of them after that and Southern California's Musick missed the extra point that would have tied the score. Notre Dame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Only three years ago, U. S. tobacco advertisers felt that, though every one knew women were smoking, to allow a woman in the unholy precincts of a cigaret advertisement would be to affront U. S. womanhood. But tobacco competition grew hot. One by one the cigaret-makers began introducing women in their advertisements. At first it was just a woman's arm and hand holding a cigaret (Marlboro). Then it was women present, though not smoking, at smoking bouts. When a Chesterfield advertisement appeared in which an entrancing female was made to say, "Blow some my way," it seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Smoke-Crusade | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...very heart of our civilization. Let us save our boys and girls!" The council voted an ordinance. It affects only billboard advertising, but U. S. cigaret advertisers, remembering the famed Kansas anti-cigaret-advertisement statute, still unrepealed though not enforced, pricked up their ears, wondered if the Colorado crusade would spread. In marked contrast to the Christian Women of Colorado Springs is "a prominent New York society woman," a Mrs. Frank C. Henderson, who last week released pictures of herself smoking a pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Smoke-Crusade | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Things are happening in Crowell Publishing Co. Last summer the Mentor was overhauled and spruced up (TIME, Aug. 19). Last month the American Magazine bade goodbye to Editor Merle Crowell (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week President Lee Wilder Maxwell announced that Farm & Fireside would have its face lifted and be given a new suit of clothes. Beginning with the February 1930 issue it will appear as The Country Home, with the same page size but with new type, new paper of high-grade magazine stock, new contents. Farm & Fireside (circulation: 1,354,000) is a farm magazine. Reincarnated it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: For Finer Farmers | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad, purchased last year by Atchison, Topeka & Santa F�. Charges against Receiver Kemper were that in 1924 when stockholders thought the situation hopeless, he learned of oil discoveries along the line, of improved operating conditions, of terms in the Santa F� deal that would make Orient gold convertible notes worth more than face value. Then, according to charges, he bought more than $1,000,000 of these notes at from 10� to 25� on a dollar, within a few months sold them with a profit of $1,875 on each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Schemes | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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