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...meant more than money. It signified the return of financial support as important to the party as the popular support (estimated: 1,000,000 votes) signified by Al Smith's return. With his arm slung across the slight Raskob shoulders Chairman Farley confided: "We're running the cheapest winning campaign in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Portents & Prophecies | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...price for the complete quota of games at the cheapest amounts to roughly $14. Many students cannot devote that much money for this kind of Saturday afternoon entertainment. Witness the 840 applicants for positions as ticket takers, where there were but 300 positions available. It is definitely hard, if not impossible for numbers of men to attend the Harvard football games. Possibly this is something to be thankful for. But the fact remains that the difference between the men who attend games and those who do not should be based on individual choice and not on financial considerations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STADIUM ECONOMICS | 10/7/1932 | See Source »

...shown signs of talent. Mrs. Marx hired a girl soprano, got up an act called "The Three Nightingales." They performed in Atlantic City in a beer garden on a pier. Underneath the pier were fishnets. The manager of the beer garden fed the Marxes only fish, because it was cheapest on his menu. Next season, Mrs. Marx thought that Harpo also was fitted for her act. She recalled him from the Seville Hotel, in Manhattan, where he was a bellhop. Unable to think of anything for Harpo to say, she had him try some of his grandfather's tricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Horse Feathers | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

...Peering out of Lambeth Palace, where he lives, the Archbishop of Canterbury used to see "the cheapest and ugliest bridge across the Thames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Archbishop's Eyesore | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...unpleasant these photographs may be, every informed man and woman should get a good grip on his digestive system and look carefully through the pages. If it is to have the effect which the men who compiled the book hoped it would have, it should be printed in the cheapest possible editions, and be broadcast throughout every literate nation. If it is widely enough seen it cannot fail of that effect. "The Horror of It" is an example of militant pacifism, in contrast to the pacifism which sits back and whines because it does not like fighting. Such pacifism shows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HORROR OF IT | 6/15/1932 | See Source »

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