Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...send my nomination for Man of the Year because I felt Winnie's was in the bag. . . . I would have captioned his picture "Number 1 of 46,000,000 Churchills...
...weeks ago the Navy got an idea. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox put it down on paper and mailed signed copies to some 5,000 newspapers, magazines, picture agencies, radio stations, etc. He marked it "confidential." Last week Frank Knox's cat was let out of the bag, not by any recipient of his unusual letter, but by the mimeographed publication Uncensored, a Manhattan weekly with an isolationist slant. Uncensored had received no letter from the Navy's Secretary, felt no compunctions of confidence in publishing Secretary Knox's letter...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. Artie Shaw can't play his way out of a paper bag--I became convinced of that when I heard him squeak his way through two twelve inch sides of what VICTOR is trying to pass off as being worth two twelve-inch sides. Miscarriage is titled Concerto for Clarinet, which you might have heard in "Second Chorus." However, there's some very fine boogie-woogie piano by Johnny Guarneri, who shows the influence of Albert Ammons. Also, Nick Fatool's drums and Billy Butterfield's trumpet save the coupling from being a total loss. . . . Record...
...watched the railroads writhing under overcapitalization, this sort of financing looked all too familiar. Wrote Chairman Joseph B. Eastman: "It seems to be a case where ... the vendors, the promoters and the bankers will all be liberally compensated . . . and the investing public will be left holding most of the bag...
...carpets. Overbuilt and overcapitalized (cost: $28,000,000) by its promoters, Ernest J. and Raymond W. Stevens, the Stevens began to totter in the first tremors of 1929. Panicky, the Stevens brothers began sluicing funds from their father's insurance company, Illinois Life. But this was just a bag of peanuts to Jumbo, and in 1932 the Stevens and Illinois Life were both in receivership. After the brothers were indicted for embezzling $1,208,463, Raymond killed himself, Ernest lived to be exculpated, later died of a "broken heart...