Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus a $10 dinner at Washington's Willard Hotel (for less opulent New Dealers) drew Senator Neely of West Virginia, Representative Maverick of Texas, and Mrs. Roosevelt. A $25 dinner at Detroit had Senator Elbert D. Thomas of Utah (Governor Murphy was ill). The $50 dinner in Chicago had Senators Duffy and Lewis and the same priced dinner in Manhattan had Herbert Bayard Swope. No less than 20 reliable Senators and over 30 Congressmen spoke hither & yon. How much all these dinners netted, Democratic statisticians had not yet calculated, but the gross take of the dinner-of-dinners...
...sincere than he made when he honestly thought the United Kingdom would fight to save League prestige and the independence of Ethiopia (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935, et ante). At that time Prime Minister Baldwin earned his nickname "Old Sealed Lips," and recently No. 1 British Political Cartoonist Low merrily drew First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Samuel Hoare and Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain resealing the Prime Minister...
Lanky, agreeable, fond of talking about himself, Reporter Rogers was well paid, drew many a big bonus for big stories. Once an unknown benefactor deposited $1,000 in the Rogers checking account. At Christmas his mailbox so overflowed with cards and gifts that once he remarked: "The whores and hoodlums always remember...
With this letter William Randolph Hearst drew a bead on his audience which has not wavered in 50 years of "Gee Whiz!" journalism. Eight years later, with the Examiner going strong, the first big battle by Hearst for his publishing empire was fought in Manhattan. He grappled for an Eastern footing with Joseph Pulitzer and his old model, Pulitzer's sensational World. Gentle Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, whose fortune was always at her beloved son's disposal, sold her Anaconda copper shares for $7,500,000 to finance this New York struggle. But it was in San Francisco...
...hopes are pinned on Johnnie Barkness in the 175-pound class who, undefeated this season, drew third place in the Intercollegiates a year ago. His hardest fight will be against Ross Shaffor of Penn, but most observers feel he will conquer by a long time advantage with which he has won most bouts this year...