Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charged that out-of-town buyers are actually depressed by the scene to the point of curtailing orders. Many an observer has seized the handy conclusion that Publisher Hearst had the hungry accept alms, in the glare of Broadway instead of on a darkened side street- simply to get cheap advertising for his paper. Day before the breadline was opened last month the Welfare Council of New York City sent Publisher Hearst a telegram stating that: 1) breadlines are unnecessary in New York, as facilities for feeding & lodging homeless men are ample; 2) public feeding "raises serious questions of public...
More than 1,500 persons stood in line to see Marion Roberts (Strasmick), chorus girl consort of the late Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond, in a song-&-dance act at the Academy of Music, cheap movie & vaudeville theatre on Manhattan's lower East Side. The gangster's widow, plump Mrs. Alice Schiffer Diamond, announced that she, too, would appear in vaudeville, in a playlet designed to '"vindicate" her husband. Said she: ''He wouldn't have known how to be a gangster...
...public want-ed?snappy looks. Into the first model whose production he supervised he put another ingredient?speed to match the looks. Also, for he is as smart a mechanic as a salesman, he added engineering improvements: the first convertible body was on an Auburn (1928): the first cheap straight-eight was an Auburn...
...resident staff. It is expected that actual ownership will be bought soon. Mr. Hitz also indicated that this is but the first step in the formation of a new national hotel chain. Hotelman Hitz is 41. When he was 16 he emigrated from Vienna, obtained work in a cheap restaurant to be sure of food. Ten years ago he was made manager of Cleveland's Fenway Hall. Six years later he was general manager of Cincinnati's Hotel Gibson. He was placed in charge of the New Yorker when it opened two years...
...told his taxi man: "Gotta see Marion. Gotta tell her how I got acquitted again." The taxi man drove him to a rooming house where lived his ex-chorus girl mistress Marion Roberts (Strasmick). At 4:30 a. m. the taxi man drove Diamond on to his own cheap lodging house, the best New York's most publicized gangster could then afford. His landlady heard him climb the stairs, slam the door of his room. His wife still waited in the speakeasy...