Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oldsters got so pepped up that they heaped $3,500 cash into a basket as a starter for Dr. Townsend's radio campaign fund. They chanted...
...which denounce his proposed Wagner Act amendments. In broadsides to all State and city federations of A. F. of L. unions, he complained that C. I. O.'s American Newspaper Guild was seducing the impoverished Labor press with fair words, paid space, cash contributions. Said he: ". . . Many of these so-called A. F. of L. publications have . . . ridiculed the position of the . . . Federation ... on important legislative matters. ... A situation of this kind is ... intolerable...
...their hats, such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the New Friends of Music Orchestra recorded such works as the Beethoven Fifth Symphony, the Mozart G-Minor Symphony. Post readers could get each album (three or more disks) by presenting 24 vouchers clipped from the paper, plus $1.93 in cash. From the first week-during which Jacob Omansky died -the venture was a success. Up to last week, when the eighth of the album series was released, 200,000 albums had been distributed. And meantime, the stunt had begun to spread...
...minded Humorist Will Rogers told Pan American Airways: "If you boys ever get around to flying the oceans, I want to be your first passenger," offered to make a cash deposit for the privilege. The airline refused his money, but put him at the head of its waiting list for both Atlantic and Pacific crossings, then only misty dreams. Before taking off for Siberia in 1935, Will Rogers tailed Pan American, asked if he could get back in time for the first Pacific flight. He could have, easily-but for the crack-up in lonely Point Barrow, Alaska, which killed...
Twenty years ago Max Salop and two brothers, Morris and Abraham, were in the retail shoe business. Then Max went into second-hand books, started the Harlem Book Co. as a retail bookstore on Manhattan's 125th Street. When Depression hit, he waved ready cash under publishers' long faces, cornered the market in publishing's distress merchandise. Today he owns several bargain bookshops, a reprint house which publishes under half-a-dozen aliases. Not even Salop himself knows how many books he sells a year...