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...game was noisily underway when Mr. Eugene G. Morehead, accompanied by Mr. Harold Levy, then but recently come South from Down East, drove up. To a young and enthusiastic looking darky who approached, Mr. Morehead asked for the score...
...time ago, while other guests pointed covertly, whispered, "It's Chang Tsung-chang and his harem.'' As every Chinaman knows, Ugly Customer Chang is the rapacious former Chinese War Lord of Shantung. He taxed and stole $10,000,000 cash out of that luckless province before the Chinese Nationalists drove him out (TIME, Sept. 24). Insatiable, he set sail from Japanese waters last spring with a privateering expedition, recaptured part of Shantung, terrorized banks and merchants into yielding him more gold, was finally driven out a second time (TIME, April...
Citizen Coolidge arrived at the Union Station at 7 a.m. President Hoover sent his secretary, George Akerson, to greet him. They drove to the Willard Hotel, Citizen Coolidge did not register. He shook hands with his old friend Mack Vogel, elevator operator. On the third floor he entered suite No. 328, the one with light blue and gold decorations, which he had occupied free of cost as Vice President. Here he breakfasted with his one-time secretaries and bodyguards. Afterward came callers?Senator Smoot, Secretary of Labor Davis, Tariff Commission Chairman Marvin, Federal Farm Board Chairman Legge, many another. They...
Toward noon he put on formal attire. drove to the White House, was greeted briefly by President Hoover, on whose right he sat during the East Room ceremonies. After the luncheon he returned to the Willard...
...Patterson-McCormick New York Daily News (largest in the U. S.), Circulator Annenberg was put in charge of circulating Liberty when it was founded in 1924. Later he was given the general managership. That meant supervising the sale of white-space as well as newsstand sales. Manager Annenberg drove into the job. Than Liberty's advertising sales-methods nothing more high-powered has ever been seen in the business. But advertising men are different from newsdealers. They must be coaxed, cannot be driven. Somehow, Liberty's advertising did not keep pace with its readership. "Trick" layouts, a special...