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Welcomed back to the ether with loud huzzas last week was General Motors, largest of automakers, and a pioneer radio sponsor in the carefree days of the '20s when broadcasters had practically nothing to worry about but signing them on the dotted line. General Motors had played hookey from the air for four years. The harassed networks hopefully interpreted the return of the prodigal as a further swing by industry to institutional radio advertising, to keep names and brands in the public ear. Present examples: Bell Telephone, Du Pont, Wheeling Steel, General Electric...
Left. By the late George Edgar Merrick, Florida land-boom multimillionaire in the '20s, founder of Coral Gables...
...mother, in her girlhood, was bonded-out to an Ohio farmer. Sherwood and his sister and his brothers were deeply poor children of an irresponsible father. In his early 20s he enlisted and served a tame, funny, delightfully told few weeks in the Spanish-American War. In his hunger for money, he also developed an Alger-boy slickness which he was later to regret; worked at odd-jobs, with race horses, in factories, writing advertising copy; became at length a paint manufacturer and the respectable head of a respectable family...
...Edward Walsh, who entered Maryknoll its first year and was in the first overseas contingent. He became U.S. Catholicism's first missionary bishop in 1927, when he was consecrated vicar apostolic of Kongmoon. With 18 years' experience in China, including the anti-foreign riots of the '20s, Bishop Walsh says: "We have already faced more critical moments in the past few years than anything we anticipate from the present war. . . . Maryknoll missioners are staying where they are and doing what they...
...Marcus in Dallas, Mrs. Blum's in Chicago (who said Nettie could get "more money for four seams than anyone else"), Nan Duskin's in Philadelphia, were proud to snag exclusive sales rights to Rosenstein models that set them back 60-$300 apiece, wholesale.* During the '20s, when the best was supposed to come from Paris, U.S. dress makers sold these fancy models under their own labels -plus an awed whisper from salesgirl to cognoscenti that they were really "Rosenstein's" -but in due course the Rosenstein label became too valuable to hide. Today in Manhattan...