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Word: cosmopolitans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compelling was the prestige of cosmopolitan Gov. Strong that it seemed almost presumptuous when Chicago bankers ventured, last fall, to' challenge the wisdom of his international money-juggling. If wise Gov. Strong, fresh from a meeting of master minds, thought Chicago should reduce its rediscount rate from 4 to 3½% to aid his European comrades in finance, only bad manners or sheer contrariness could explain Chicago's dissent. Gov. Strong was cast for the hero's role in the drama of U. S. money. Obviously, all that remained for Chicago was to be the juvenile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chicago v. New York | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...Louis Philippe to make $100 in 1910 than $163,968 in 1927. Last year, U. S. beauty seekers paid between $400,000,000 and $500,000,000 to cosmetics makers, who had already devoted $40,000,000 to advertising. At times, the advertising pages of such magazines as the Cosmopolitan (Hearst) seem almost exclusively devoted to cosmetics. Every small town has its beauty specialist, its "parlors," where creams and lotions, pastes, lipsticks, rouges, powders are on sale. As an industry, cosmetics making has all the modern paraphernalia. It has its trade papers (Toilet Requisites, Toilet Goods Economist), its federal supervision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Beauty Appetite | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

Readers of the August Cosmopolitan learned what the world's two most potent antifeminists still think of women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Women v. Dictator & Earl | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...head. . . . With the exception of two brilliant scenes, Mr. Menjou's recent films have not been up to the high standards of his earlier ones (such as A Woman of Paris). Let Mr. Menjou return to those standards, as easily as he sets the standards of a cosmopolitan gentleman who is at home in three languages (English, French, German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 9, 1928 | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...RISE OF THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD-Count Egon Caesar Corti-Cosmopolitan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rothschild Sons | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

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