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...involuntary merchandising venture with bleak prospects to a likely-looking investment with a return expected this year. Last week in celebration of the second anniversary of her entry into business, President Dominici was given a cocktail party, to which the press was invited to watch her cut a cake model of her store. On the confection roof was a decorative "2" to record not only President Dominici's tenure but also the fact that Bonwit Teller had doubled its business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Storekeeping Atlas | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...materials, then the declaration of this gentleman is about as intelligent as the question of the well-known Bourbon princess who at the sight of the revolutionary mob roaring for bread remarked in surprise, why, if the people did not have bread, did they not eat cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nazis at Numb erg | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

From a small tug at Pequaming, Mich., stepped vacationing Henry Ford. Straightway he marched to a local dancing school, reeled & minueted with happy moppets for half an hour. For all Pequaming boys & girls he ordered ice cream & cake, chugged off again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 31, 1936 | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...size." Pointing out that "for a first-class massacre more than a truncheon is needed," the New Masses went on to report that "alongside the patented invention on True's desk lies a Colt revolver. True is a good shot. He practices by shooting at a cake of soap, because [he says] the consistency of soap approximates Jewish flesh." For all who care to join his September Jew shoot, True "promises he can obtain revolvers" from a Washington hardware firm at wholesale prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Jew Shoot | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...several members of the New Brunswick Cabinet he went picnicking on a beach a mile from his home. There were only some 40 guests on the picnic, and Mrs. Roosevelt and the steward of the Presidential yacht Potomac succeeded in filling them adequately with roast beef, ham, salad and cake. On the sand, with a comfortable rock at his back, the President spent most of his time conversing with the New Brunswickian Premier and eating frankfurters, than which he likes only scrambled eggs better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Ces Aimables Paroles | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

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