Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popularity. Wracking his brains for a new magazine idea, he hit upon the reverse procedure. With Hellzapoppin still a sellout after eight months on Broadway, Norman Anthony offered Producers Olsen & Johnson half a cent a copy for permission to use the title for a magazine.* Having little ready cash, he got a printer and a paperseller to take a chance on three issues, bought $300 worth of art, then sat down in his room in the Parkside Hotel and wrote 32 pages of gags. This week the first issue of Hellzapoppin will appear on the newsstands...
...several months much speculative cash has lain idle waiting till its owners got over speculating on economic trends. Three weeks ago some of the speculators made up their minds and the stockmarket moved tentatively upward without encouragement from industrial production. Last week the market slowly worked its way up past a minor "resistance point"-140 on. the Dow Jones industrial averages (1938 high 158.41; low 98.95)-waited for the sluggish railroad averages to "confirm" by rising from...
...want to come for coffee and cake it is all right with me. But remember, you are not playing fair with me when you keep him the nights he is supposed to be home. . . . Last night was my night and I was supposed to go with him to cash his check and shop. You took my place. Is that fair? . . . He is coming home Monday or I will know why. I am getting hardboiled, (signed) Your...
...aides). Into M. H.'s Manhattan and Boston offices (Policyholders' Advisory Council) last year ventured some 40,000 persons with real or fancied insurance problems. Each of them paid $1 for the interview. Some 8,000 became clients-i. e., had their policies cashed or converted and cheaper insurance substituted, sometimes with a spot of recovered cash to boot. For these services, Siegel exacts an average fee of $25. Non-profit consumer groups also engaged in insurance counsel say the average case can be handled for $3. Out of his whopping annual take, some $250,000, Siegel paid...
...Mayor Cornelius Decatur Scully. Last week cleft-chinned, big-beaked Churchill Mehard gave an up-to-date accounting of his finances. On trial in a Pittsburgh criminal court for misdemeanor in office and taking bribes, he informed a badgering prosecutor: "All I have now is a few dollars in cash...