Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know whether you're going to support me or not, and I don't give a damn; you're a bunch of political liabilities anyway...
George Putnam was 19 when he told his mother that he was going into radio. Said she: "You talk all the time anyway; you might as well get paid for it. Station WDGY, in Minneapolis, took him on as announcer, jazz-record-player, occasional vocalist. He built up a sizable following of jitterbugs for his record program, White Heat, enrolled many a hepcat in his White Heat Club of America. When he moved across the river to St. Paul's station KSTP, Minneapolitans remembered him chiefly for the double talk he ad-libbed between records. It sounded something like...
...Admiral Howard L. Vickery announced that he had told the British the U.S. "had become a maritime nation and intended to remain one; that we would do it by cooperation if they wanted to but, if they 'didn't want to, we were going to do it anyway. . . . But ... it is much better to do it in cooperation . . . than to start a wrangle...
...Anyway," he cracked, "I beat ten men and was well ahead of the Class...
...private companies love it; none wanted the extra risk of covering servicemen anyway. Main effect will be to accustom more men to carrying life insurance-and more of it. The average Government policyholder today is insured for $8-9,000 (maximum allowed: $10,000) v. a national average of just over $2,000. The Government thus far has sold policies to 95% of all servicemen. This should give the insurance salesmen of the next decade a great head start on a rich future...