Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...posers whose works were then being bandied from one cafe to another with never a penny's profit to the men who made them. At first it was uphill sledding bu. Victor Herbert had a smart attorney named Nathan Burkan and a willing helper named Eugene Howard Buck, who collaborated on 20 Ziegfeld Follies. Under George Maxwell, its first president, and now under Gene Buck, A. S. C. A. & P. has prospered mightily. It has brought and won more than 1,000 suits against cinema houses, theatres, hotels and restaurants which used songs without paying the copyright fees. Today...
...AA?the highest paid rating. They represent a class whose songs are most actively played today, receive in copyright royalties between $5,000 and $10,000 a year. There is an honorary Permanent Class A for good writers who are no longer producing songs. Such a songwriter is Gene Buck ("Tulip Time," "Hello Frisco") who gets about $2,500 for his rating but is reported to make $25,000 as the society's president. Ratings go as low as 4. Last year A. S. C. A. & P. collected about $2,000,000 which it prorated among its members. Most...
...mind to expect such a radical change so suddenly," flashed the Premier, and his hearers bowed forward eagerly. Did this mean that he was going to buck the Navy's demand for Japanese equality? Suavely Admiral Okada covered himself, "I repeat that it is not in my mind to expect such radical changes so suddenly but I do not favor the present ratio principle. It hurts the self-respect of nations...
Governor Sholtz passed the buck to State Relief Administrator Julius F. Stone Jr. "Reliever Stone figured it would cost $2,000,000 to dole Key West for another five years. "The thing to do," he announced, "is to make Key West so attractive as to revive the tourist trade. Key West should be the Bermuda of America...
...neighboring apartments in Chicago. This summer Gosden, a native of Richmond, and the one who takes the most parts, is taking his wife and children to Alaska. Correll, one-time bricklayer in Peoria, is going to take his wife to Europe. Frank (''Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck will pinch hit on the Pepsodent hour until autumn...