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Dates: during 1930-1930
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After an apprenticeship as a stage baby, Jackie Coogan, 4, was doing the shimmy in a vaudeville act with Annette Kellerman when Charles Chaplin, then meditating The Kid, put him on contract. After he had made 14 pictures Jackie's parents sent him to Loyola High School in Los Angeles. Now 16, he is in the junior class, weighs 95 lb., likes to wear white spats away from school. His allowance, until recently, was $20 per week when he was earning about $3,500 per week...
...said, startlingly, that the syndicate should give protection ". . . against such drives ... as have been experienced since the middle of the year 1928, at which time and since a certain California competitor has been a most active participant in the group conducting the market operations. . . . May I urge . . . stockholders to put up a united front against the enemy...
Fortnight ago, Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of California Institute of Technology, put Science and Industry in their places in a speech to U. S. life insurance presidents (TIME, Dec. 22). Last week Scientist Millikan, speaking before a Manhattan meeting of Phi Beta Kappa alumni, related Science and the Humanities. Himself a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi (science honor society), he suggested that since modern science owes its beginnings to oldtime scholars of the humanities, the two branches of knowledge should come in closer contact today through a union of Phi Beta Kappa, scholastic society, and Tau Beta...
...building the first windowless factory, designed to increase the output of manpower 33 ⅓%. The structure, one story high, consists of only one large room covering about five acres in which executives may sit undisturbed while saws are machine-made all about them. Roof (the most expensive ever put in a factory-$175,000), walls, floor will be of noise-absorbing material. To eliminate the communication of vibration, all machinery will be insulated where it touches floor or wall. Where irritating noises cannot be controlled by insulation, they will be neutralized by other noises (TIME, Dec. 15). Workmen will hear...
...SALOON IN THE HOME-Ridgely Hunt & George S. Chappell-Coward-McCann ($2).* Compilers Hunt & Chappell put up a blatant front of impartiality on the Wet & Dry question. At the top of every page they reprint some moral tale or verse from some such temperance sourcebook as No Gin Today, Anecdotes from the Platform, Temperance Annual; then counter at the bottom with recipes for drinks. The scheme, more ingenious than its execution, is helped somewhat by pseudo-Victorian pseudo-engravings by Artist John Held Jr. Like all rummagings in the attic, this one recovers some rare antiques; the full version...