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Life bought a page in the New York Times and, beneath a weeping Goddess of Liberty, cried out: "HOW LONG WILL WE PUT UP WITH IT?" The text went into a smashbang flaying of current liquor phenomena, contrasting the $882,727,114 paid as individual income tax in 1928 with a figure of $936,000,000, which Life said was the cost of Prohibition enforcement "and loss in revenue." Then Life made this proposition: if you agreed with its sentiments, please send at least $1 to "the Life War Chest." It was promised that "every penny thus received will...
...only a Frenchman but a gallant Frenchman, Author de Miomandre's criticism of Venus is usually tacit, always tempered with admiration. Though he writes as an historian, conscious of documents, it is his firm though undocumented belief that the goddess has returned to Mt. Olympus, where she dwells as beautiful, as potent, as ever...
...FORTUNE'S first cover is a twelve-spoked wheel of the Zodiac, spun slowly against a golden sky by a shapely Goddess of Plenty. The management promised a different cover design in similar vein each month. Among the footnotes (relegated to the last pages after the scholar's fashion) it was told that Thomas Maitland Cleland, designer and typographer, executed the first cover and is the new handmaiden's important adjunct, Art Editor...
...first day of every Japanese year, while the sun is rising, ten poems are read as pompously as possible to the Son of Heaven, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito, 124th lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess...
...does, her pessimism is only of the morning after. "To taste of everything just once-in order to be able to despise everything." In Diana, Author Ludwig has tried to give the ideal of modern emancipated woman: a realistic romantic, he has called her by the name of a goddess...