Word: audition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finding that he had increased the estate's working capital from $12,920,000 to $17,387,000 in the 26 years of his trusteeship the court refused in March 1931 to remove him as trustee. Six weeks later, when the special audit was completed, Joseph resigned voluntarily. Lawyers' fees for the eight-year quarrel were $1,012,500. Joseph died in 1932. He caught cold watching horse races at New Orleans, insisted on returning to the track blanketed in a wheelchair, took pneumonia. His estate totalled approximately $1,000,000. Sister Mary died in 1906, with...
Nearest to a radio circulation audit is the Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting rating issued twice monthly and giving the percentage of radio sets theoretically tuned in on 250 leading U. S. radio programs, based on actual checks of homes in 32 key areas. Accepted figure for U. S. families owning radio sets Jan. 1, 1937 is 24,500,000. C.A.B.'s rating for Mr. Woollcott's program during the period of last month's advertisements was 5.1%. Calculating 3.5 listeners for every U. S. radio, Mr. Woollcott's listeners were...
...executive committee, Bon Ami Co. Leaving acknowledgments to her dead husband's partner, Henry K. McCann, Mrs. Erickson heard him praised as: the father of the commission basis upon which modern advertising agencies operate; one of the fathers of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, the Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Better Business Bureaus...
...claims he is a cousin of the late Mrs. Garrett, quietly became administrators of the residuary estate, but four years passed before a public accounting was made at the instance of persons who became aware of the fortune. Two years ago, when the court was to pass on the audit, the fourth floor of Philadelphia's City Hall was as crowded as a County Fair, and Case No. 2552 of 1932 became a real problem for the Orphans' Court which William Penn set up 248 years ago. Within four months, 3,000 claims were filed, since then...
...names,'' purchasers of Commentator felt that they were getting a sharply flavored magazine which aspired to fill the place of the American Mercury in its palmy days. Lead-off article, from no loudspeaker but from the pen of Historian James Truslow Adams, was a thoughtful audit of the "state of the Union." George E. Sokolsky, writing on John L. Lewis, made the flat assertion that the United Mine Workers of America could "come into a town and take possession of it," and "close down any steel or automobile plant in the country." Humorist Robert Benchley was represented with...