Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Winchell fame, the Winchell salary. But the salary-growth was not rapid enough to suit the ambitious gossip purveyor. I And said he: "I was willing to stay with the Graphic because of the amazing liberty I enjoyed, but I became unhappy because of a double cross about money." This year, he said, the Graphic promised him $300 a week, 50% of syndicate receipts. Neither the $300 nor all the 50% forthcame, Winchell related. But in his desk was a contract with the Hearst organization for a weekly salary of $500 plus 50% of the syndicated receipts. Last week...
Across his breast was the sash of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus; he wore too the Cross of Malta and Collar of the Annunziata, which gives its wearer the right to call Italy's King "cousin." Arrayed in such dignity but brusque as ever, Benito Mussolini last week strode up the marble stairway that leads to the damasked Hall of Congregations in the Vatican.* In his pocket was a Bank of Italy check for 750 million lire ($39,225,000) and a certificate for one billion lire ($52,300,000) of Italian State bonds. In the Hall...
...final proof of his new sovereignty the Pope left the Vatican building, drove in his Fiat down the street that skirts the Vatican Museum to the Vatican Gardens, but did not cross his state's boundary...
Another U. S. institution in Albania is the Tirana industrial school sponsored by the Junior American Red Cross. To aid this school, grateful King Zog last week presented 650 acres of land to U. S. Minister Charles Calmer Hart...
...Harvard, which graduated George Fisher Baker Jr. in 1899, wanted a graduate school of business. Mr. Baker handed it a grand $5,000,000. Harvard wanted more money for the business school; he gave it another $1,000,000. The late great Henry Pomeroy Davison needed money for Red Cross work during the War; Mr. Baker gave $2,000,000. The Metropolitan Museum of Art wanted Regault's painting "Salome"; Mr. Baker presented it. It wanted money; he gave $1,000,000. Cornell University asked for dormitories and chemical laboratories, and got $2,000,000 from Mr. Baker. And thus...