Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private affairs before they were devoted to NRA. In all business Baruch banked heavily on his judgment of men, backing companies whose managers he trusted, instantly abandoning those whose bosses lacked his faith. He carried his likes and dislikes into Democratic politics; Al Smith could have had his last dime if it would have helped the Brown Derby...
...place to sit in the sun. But most afternoons he is hustling downtown, first to the barber who for 23 years has combed his hair and shaved him, then to the office. He has seen the music-publishing business in three distinct phases: 1) when songs sold for a dime and made little profit; 2) when the price reached 30? and people gladly paid it; 3) when radio came along, cut the sale of a hit from 2,000,000 to 200,000 copies, the life of a song from a year to two months. Berlin, the businessman...
Philip A. Benson (Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn) who was reelected the Association's president: ". . . We still believe that the least government is the best government...
...Lenin in both shows but most were in the Independents, who also showed a picture by one Charles Goeller entitled Reconciliation, showing Diego Rivera and John Davison Rockefeller Sr. clasping hands in such a manner that each was thumbing his nose (see cut). A design for a new Rockefeller dime bore the motto "Oily to bed and oily to rise. . . ." The Salons of America's Poet's Dream by Columba Krebs was a woman with a raven for hair, cherries for lips, shells for ears, a lily for a hand, a swan's neck. A crucifixion scene...
Over the unmarked hump of ground in South Dakota's Black Hills where lies Deadwood Dick Carver, boomtown desperado and dime novel hero, the Deadwood Chamber of Commerce voted to place a rough stone monument and a brass plate...