Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The U. S. is about to spend a quarter-billion dollars on new public buildings. Chicago is to have a $14,000,000 post office. Federal court houses and post offices will soon sprout throughout the Mid-West. Chicago builders hunger for these fat federal contracts. Charles Curtis is Vice...
Held was one Mike Malloy, accused of steering eager contractors looking for U. S. jobs to the law office of young, debonair, Son Curtis.
At the State's Attorney's office contractors told their stories of jobs they never got. The standard "fee" was $500 for a contract in 30 days. One man had been promised good jobs in Wisconsin, Illinois or Indiana. When he failed to get them, he said he...
Next came the vote on flexibility. Result: 42-to-42. Amid an awful hush Vice President Curtis broke the tie, cast his vote against non-flexibility. The Tariff Bill went back to conference with the House where a quick agreement was anticipated.
Germany. Professor Max The Miracle Reinhardt pooled his resources with Showman Curtis Melnitz, onetime Berlin manager for United Artists Theatre Circuit of America, and bought controlling interest last week in Terra Film, a leading German cinema firm which he will use to produce German talkie operettas, later talkie operas.