Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and demand for his books revived. But Publishers Farrar & Rinehart had thrown away their chance to make any money on Fletcher's autobiography. The week before, they had sold their remaining stock of Life Is "remainders" My named Song to Max a Salop. dealer in book Max Salop, literary junk man, is known to few outside the book business. But in side the business, he is a familiar legend...
Question-of-the-hour put by Roosevelt loyalists to their fellow Democrats is: "Do you oppose a third term for the President? When it reached resilient Maury Maverick-the super-New-Dealer who, defeated for re-election to the House, snapped back last month as mayor of San Antonio-the question bounced. "I think," said Maury Maverick, "that I'm against a fourth term, and I know I'm against a fifth...
Most people know that George Bernard Shaw was once a music critic, writing for London papers under the name Corno di Bassetto (basset horn, a wind instrument). That he was also an amateur composer was revealed last week when Arthur Pforzheimer, Manhattan rare book dealer, exhibited manuscripts of two sweet Shaw songs, / Lack Thy Kisses and Here She Comes, written in 1884 to verses by a friend, a Miss Radford. > Last fortnight the Basle, Switzerland radio station broadcast a gay little opera buffa, La Contadina, by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, second-rank 18th-Century composer. Mislaid in the Brussels Royal Library...
...Granville Brothers' factory (Springfield, Mass.) it was built for Jacqueline Cochran to fly in a London-Melbourne race. Miss Cochran was forced down at Bucharest. Later the Q.E.D. was entered in four important U. S. races, never finished one. Last year Sarabia bought it from Dealer Charles Babb of Los Angeles...
Publisher Gannett, a confirmed anti-New Dealer who has also urged doctors to defeat the bill, got no enthusiastic response from the dentists. A few hours later, Dr. Arthur Hastings Merritt, president-elect of the American Dental Association, came out guardedly for the Wagner Bill, was roundly applauded by his dental audience. Although he wanted administration of dental care kept in the hands of dentists, and although he did not advocate free treatment for the well-to-do, Dr. Merritt came out for support of "some form of health insurance-compulsory, voluntary, or both-by a payroll tax to which...