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...cashing-in tour last year (TIME, Sept. 15). The mayors are to be guests of the French Republic, to see the International Colonial & Overseas Exposition in Paris (TIME, May 11) and take a whirlwind junket through France. Entrusted to the mayors by the U. S. exposition committee was a bust of the late Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick, carved from a beam of the original White House, to be placed in the Paris Hotel de Ville...
When George V learned last week that William Hale (I'll-bust-King-George-on-the-snoot) Thompson had been defeated for re-election as Mayor of Chicago (TIME, April 13), His Majesty chuckled...
...political fate of the Chicago mayor whose slogan was "Keep King George Out of Chicago," and who had threatened to "bust King George on the snoot," was front-page material in London last week. Nearly every paper in the city reported the defeat of William Hale Thompson (TIME, April 13), in page-wide banners and lengthy editorials. Even in Paris the headline of La Liberté was BIG BILL BEATEN...
...second day of the festival the old Major's bust was taken out of the Symphony Hall lobby, set on the stage in the centre of a floral display. Instead of music, speeches were the meat of the afternoon, with the Major's widow, a little old lady of 93, one of the guests on the stage. Professor Bliss Perry of Harvard, the Major's friend & biographer, recalled many an interesting fact: Henry Lee Higginson went only a part of one year to Harvard although he was described by President Hadley of Yale as the "ideal Harvard man." He gave...
Intimate Merger. A year ago the president of Associated Apparel Industries, Inc. ("the Bust Trust") was elated at the change in fashion which demanded that women wear "foundation garments" of which his firm is one of the biggest makers. His enthusiasm was justified, for Associated sales during the year ended Nov. 30, 1930 exceeded $15,000,000, making a new record for the company. Subsidiaries contributing to this performance included: Nature's Rival Co., Venus Brassiere Co., Parisform Brassiere Co. Some of Associated's better-known trade-names are College Girl, Modart, Venus, Solitaire, Last week...