Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your weakness, if it is a weakness, is one common also to big city newspapers. It is the way matters appear to big city people and is rather provincial...
...Harvard and with wife, James Roosevelt settled in the Gushing home in Brookline, Mass. Still following the parental pattern, he registered at Boston University's Law school. Soon, however, he rebelled at living on an allowance from his family. James has the three ambitions common to most of the Roosevelts: 1) to get married, 2) to gain economic independence, 3) to become President of the U. S. Having attained the first he set out to get the second. Through the dean of the Law School he met a Boston insurance agent named Victor de Gerard-a onetime Cossack captain...
Financial Desert. Although advised that TIME could not properly be launched with less than $1,000,000 capital, Editors Luce and Hadden started with only $85,000. This they obtained by selling preferred and a little common stock in TIME Inc.* to citizens who had more faith that a newsmagazine would be a public service than that it would be a financial success...
...decided they would be justified in doing it. But so ingrained was the habit of plowing back profits into the improvement of the magazine that not until 1929 (circulation: 243,400) could enough money be spared to pay the first dividend on the preferred stock. None was paid on common stock until 1930. By then TIME'S loyal family of readers numbered 307,-528-187 of whom had paid $60 apiece for lifetime subscriptions (no longer sold...
...Herbert Ames, Canadian statesman who was the first Financial Director of the League of Nations, will speak in the Upper Common Room of the Union Monday night on. "A Week at the National Socialist Party Rally at Nuremburg," and show a sound film of the Nazi spectacle...