Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt of Minneapolis to capture fame as the Kellogg hometown is perfectly comprehensible to one who daily witnesses the editorial rapaciousness of the coarser of the Twin Cities...
Paul Merrick Hollister resigned as vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (advertising) to become publicity director of R. H. Macy & Co., Manhattan bargain store, succeeding Kenneth Collins who left to form his own agency (TIME. Nov. 14). A onetime reporter on his hometown paper (Grand Rapids News), Adman Hollister is famed for waggish japery, is head of the Charles Townsend Copeland Association, an organization of former students of the crotchety Harvard sage. In 1927 he won Harvard's Bok Advertising Award for an R. H. Macy institutional campaign. For the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, in which...
Your article "Prizeman" under Religion, TIME. Oct. 10, convinces me that you gather your news items from all corners of the earth. Being one of the ''700 parishioners." I was thrilled to see Mr. Rose and the hometown mentioned in TIME...
...Topeka. The Governor's Topeka speech drew a crowd estimated at twice the size of the one that turned out last month to hear Charles Curtis accept the Vice-Presidential nomination in his hometown. Speaker Garner joined his teammate at the State Capitol. Said he: "I've come here to show you that I wear neither horns nor hoofs though I come from Texas...
...Governor General Roosevelt); Federal District Attorney George Emmerson Q. (for nothing) Johnson of Chicago, to be a U. S. District Judge (Attorney Johnson jailed Gangster Capone and nine other racketeers); Ernest B. Thomas of Rushville, Ind. to be a member of the Federal Farm Board (Rushville is the hometown of Republican Senate Leader Watson); Norman Armour, now Counsellor of Embassy at Paris, to be Minister to Haiti (a career diplomat, Mr. Armour diplomatically announced: "I'm as pleased to go to Haiti as I am sorry to leave Paris"). ¶ For his 58th birthday, President Hoover received...