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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another money-raising device was adopted last week when Chairman James A. Farley sat down with 1,300 other Democrats in Philadelphia's Penn Athletic Club. They ate fruit cocktail, consomme, filet mignon, two vegetables, combination salad, dessert and coffee and they paid a minimum of $100 apiece for the meal. Gross proceeds: $130,000 plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Money, Money, Money | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...that they never be mentioned again in this connection, lest they get swelled heads. Ciano, according to brother aviators, is an in different pilot, but recklessly brave. He eats more spaghetti, prepared with copious melted butter and cheese, than Edda thinks good for his figure. He seldom downs a cocktail, which Italians consider fattening, takes a glass or two of wine at every meal. When Father-in-law Mussolini went on what amounted to a fruit diet, so did Son-in-law Ciano, but his gastronomic passion at present is for fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictators' Five Points | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...office behind the door is modest, unostentatious, paneled in dark oak. Wallis spends 12 to 14 hours a day in it. Outside is a lounge resembling a small cocktail bar where daily waits a long succession of writers, supervisors, agents and technicians for decisive two-or three-minute interviews. Wallis checks every budget, red-penciling items he thinks too high. Models of every important set are carried in to be demonstrated to him. The mild, incessant hum of well-routined activity is occasionally broken by stormy story conferences. Producer Wallis may reject other men's ideas but he rarely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 2, 1936 | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Dinty Moore's--Indirect lighting, Bohemian atmosphere, a rendezvous for Harvard men. Joe and Charlie await your order for a "Ronrico Frosted cocktail frapped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swinging Around the Downtown Loop | 10/30/1936 | See Source »

Under Atlas management Bonwit Teller has changed from an involuntary merchandising venture with bleak prospects to a likely-looking investment with a return expected this year. Last week in celebration of the second anniversary of her entry into business, President Dominici was given a cocktail party, to which the press was invited to watch her cut a cake model of her store. On the confection roof was a decorative "2" to record not only President Dominici's tenure but also the fact that Bonwit Teller had doubled its business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Storekeeping Atlas | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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