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...matters below Commissioner of Internal Revenue Guy T. Helvering and Secretary of War Harry Woodring. In social Washington he cuts even less ice. An Elk, a 32nd degree Mason and a Shriner, he spends most of his time at home. His wife, who calls him "Senator," drives the family Buick. Regarded by his friends as a loyal New Dealer and by his enemies as a humdrum Main Street politician, George McGill is not so sleepy as he looks. On one occasion, barnstorming in a Kansas campaign, he was scoring opposition leaders by name...
...salary, he appeals to his horse-betting listeners to win him bonuses, declares on the air that he makes no money at the tracks, that a bet placed by Willie Winn poisons the horse. After he began broadcasting for R. B. last June, his sponsor promised him a 1938 Buick coach if in two weeks he could bring 500 new accounts into the store. He appealed directly to his listeners. Within nine days 500 racing fans opened accounts, won Willie...
They have nine rooms, one maid, a Buick and a Ford, go to church regularly...
...inconvenience Gracie Fields who prefers to live in a style more in keeping with her humble origins. In London, her most ostentatious possession is a red brick house on Finchley Road. She sold her Rolls-Royce because "it was too posh for me,'' rides in a Buick...
...Louis gave all this elaborate and expensive machinery every bit of use it needed. When the books were balanced, NBC could count as maximum paper loss the profit on time charges for what might have been an additional broadcasting hour, came out with a profit on the flat rate Buick paid for the fight, the 15 minutes of time sold. Buick lost the potential advertising mentions planned at three or four round intervals, put on the air the longer opening and closing announcements. These totaled three minutes and 48 seconds of air time, 108 seconds over NBC's advertising...