Word: biddinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*Zimbalist, like other astute artists, sometimes alters his fee to fit the occasion. Recently, a Manhattan dowager telephoned him, bidding him play at one of her musicales. "And what, Mr. Zimbalist, will be your fee?' "Five thousand dollars, Madam." The dowager did not flinch. "And you under stand, Mr...
The Roosevelt Line, to which Mr. Astor has turned his money and his attention, operates 24 motor ships between U. S. points on the Atlantic and Australia, India, and the Far East. It is important but not dominant in the field of American shipping. Both the Dollar and the United...
Back from bank to bank the counterfeit trail was followed. It led last week to an order bidding German and Swiss police to arrest on sight one Franz Fischer, prominent a decade ago in the German Communist Party, but of recent years a personage of nebulous though prosperous obscurity. "Franz...
Cadillac. Bidding strongly for logo's luxury trade was a new model by Cadillac. Autophiles who once gloated over Packard's mighty "Twin Six" gathered around the enclosure which contained the new Cadillac engine, regally mounted. Composed of two blocks of eight cylinders (each with carburetor) set at...