Word: bayard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Columbia Broadcasting System was worth more than ten million last week nobody seemed to doubt. At first competitive bidders but finally fellow stock-holders with President Paley were Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co., Lehman Corp., Field, Glore & Co. and Herbert Bayard Swope. Columbia's gross business in 1931 was $11,000,000. It owns five stations outright, has 91 affiliates, is the world's largest radio broadcasting system...
...against $750,000 in 1930 despite a 4% drop in sales volume. The showing delighted Broker Edward F. Hutton, chairman of the board, who is said to regard Zonite as his "pet company." It also pleased such directors as Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, Colby M. Chester Jr., Herbert Bayard Swope and Hunter Sylvester Marston...
Anyone who pays 25? to see the plot of Arsene Lupin, derived from the play by Maurice Le Blanc and Francis de Croisset, or to hear the dialog written for it by Bayard Veiller and Lenore Coffee, would have a right to feel disappointed, if not duped. But no one should make such a mistake. The pleasure of seeing this Arsene Lupin consists entirely in seeing both Barrymore brothers at the same time. Theatre-goers enjoyed this privilege in 1919, when both were cabined in the narrow dungeons of The Jest, but they are not likely to enjoy it again...
...been a trial & tribulation to a succession of owners. Because he ran wild in Sedro Woolley, Wash., the Al G. Barnes Circus gave him to a carnival operator. The carnival operator left him at the Oregon State Fair. Two months ago the fair board sold him to Elephant Trainers Bayard Gray and Jack O'Grady for his board bill ($200). Messrs. Gray & O'Grady kept him in a barn in Portland, tried to teach him manners. Last month he had a cold, drank a potion reported to contain ten gallons of moonshine whiskey, got the hiccups and more...
Publishers of Gentle Reader are Music Critic Samuel Chotzinoff, editor of the magazine, and Managing Editor Richard Manson. Literary editor is Author John Erskine, with whom are associated Lloyd Morris as reviewer of fiction, Byron Steel of biography. Staff writers advertised: Herbert Bayard Swope, politics; Percy Hammond, theatre; Richard Watts Jr., cinema; William Cotton, art; Mary Watkins, dancing...