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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...producing company on the ground that its product was inferior, that it spoiled in customers' hands before turning to wine as guaranteed. To defend itself the producing company exhibited testimonials from satisfied purchasers. One testimonial was from Senator Gould. From the U. S. Capitol in 1927 he had written: ". . . After a good deal of bother I got some very fair results. . . . The case of cordials . . . was very much appreciated, especially by the feminine side of the fam ily. ... As you know I come from a Prohibition state and I am supposed to be a prohibitionist but I am about...
...tracts. In 1923 after 30 years as active members of the Labor and Socialist movement they framed their first indictment of capital in The Decay of Capitalist Civilization. Though she is now automatically Lady Passfield, Beatrice Webb last week An nounced she would never use her title. Books written by them will be signed "Lord Passfield and Beatrice Webb." Unique is Mrs. Webb's decision. Other authors, including John Galsworthy, Rudyard Kipling, have refused titles. But there is no record of a peer-author's wife refusing to become a Lady. U. S. observers compared Mrs. Webb...
Realizing that this was a purely technical point, that there was no objection from any party to the spirit or the clauses of the Kellogg Treaty, the Tanaka government advised the Emperor to sign the treaty as written, for fear of causing international complications. To appease ultraconservatives, an official explanation was issued pointing out that the Emperor was signing a treaty written in a foreign language; that the Emperor was doing nothing to lower his authority...
Present head of Macy's is Jesse Isidor Straus, who always wishes to have his middle name written in full out of respect to the memory of his father. Purchasing Bamberger's was a logical step because, situated on the west side of Manhattan, many a Macy customer is a New Jerseyite and the two great stores were competing ever more keenly. Friends of Mr. Straus twittingly asked whether he bought Bamberger's with the discount at which Macy's aims to sell all merchandise...
Since 1920 Edward Pearson Warner has taught aviation engineering at M. I. T. In 1924 he was made a full professor. Air-literary as well as air-minded, he has writ ten two volumes on engineering aspects of the industry, has also written many an article for aeronautical publications. No stranger in the offices of the magazine he is to edit, Professor-Secretary-Editor Warner helped to prepare some of Aviation's first early issues in 1916, has since con tributed to it not a few learned treatises on various phases of aircraft manufacture and development...