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Much reading of the Constitution has made Mr. Borah a solemn man whom the ordinary run of jokes fails to amuse. But this time he had gripped, he thought, a Constitutional jest, the cream of which would taste sour in the mouths of the Wets. All a-chuckle, he was not hesitant in sharing it with the world. Rhode Island had raised a captious question on the 18th Amendment's ratification. Senator Borah judicially pronounced it "utterly unsound" and then continued...
...color range is limited and there are no circus tints. But often, with deep browns and blues, cream, dull reds and yellows, the tones seem caused by years of exposure to the decorative whims of nature rather than by a deliberate, conscious process...
...Talbott is a director of the mass production McClaren Consolidated Cone Co., which provides the U.S. with many an ice cream cone; the Dayton Friction Toy Co., famed for its fire-engines for children: the Vance Manufacturing Co., which makes the steel in Pullman cars look like wood...
...digesting the significance of President Hoover's oil conservation policy (see p. 16), Thomas B. Slick, the king of all "wildcatters," credited with being the largest individual oil operator in the world, completed the sale of all his producing lands to the Prairie Oil & Gas Co. These properties-cream of the Seminole, Kay, Kansas, and North Texas fields-yield 34,000 barrels a day, and will bring Prairie's gross daily production up to about 105,000 barrels. They put into Producer Slick's pocket between $50,000 and $60,000 per day. Reports from Tulsa...
...days was the tale in which an ailing person, having "taken two bottles of your marvelous remedy," was quickly restored to blooming health. Later, as the conscience of advertisers and the standards of publishers improved, testimonials declined. It was probably the much discussed Pond's Cream series, featuring endorsements from Marie of Rumania and many another celebrity, which marked the return of the testimonial to advertising's most polished circles. Outstanding current examples of testimonial campaigns are the advertising of Pond's Cream, Simmons' Beds, Lux Soap, Fleischmann's Yeast and Herbert Tareyton, Old Gold...