Word: earning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest reporters was out of a job last week, perhaps more to his own surprise than to that of Washington correspondents who have been his admiring friends for 15 years. Paul Y.* Anderson gave the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the best 23 of his 44 years, helped earn it great prestige and himself a $16,000 salary, finally won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize with an almost single-handed crusade which reopened the reeking Teapot Dome scandal. Paul Anderson began to think increasingly of late that his endless exploits had also earned him an independence no other Washington correspondent enjoys...
...governments. Without specifying exactly how this was to be done or recommending any substitute taxes to make up an estimated $7,500,000 loss in revenue, Governor White declared: "The home is a home, whether it be occupied by a man of wealth or by a man who must earn his daily bread by his daily toil. . . . An amendment to the constitution may be necessary . . . but if so, I think there is no question whatever that our people would overwhelmingly ratify such an amendment at the polls...
...Miriam Noel, left him. Before he was able to marry Olgivanna, the soft-voiced, Montenegrin woman who is his present wife, they and their baby were incredibly harried by the newspapers, the Noel lawyers and the police, who jailed them, once in Milwaukee. Wright could get no work, could earn no money. Taliesin fell into the hands of a bank and Wright got it back only when a group of old clients and friends incorporated...
...this fair disclaimer, Franklin Roosevelt then added his view of the railroads' two most pressing problems. One is financial. He suggested the case of a road with outstanding bonded indebtedness of $200,000,000 which can earn interest on only $100,000,000. What, asked the President suggestively, would you do? The other problem is competition. He suggested that the nation is gradually coming to believe that parallel trackage must be eliminated in many places. Best solution he could think of for his press conference was consolidation of many lines into single, efficient, noncompeting systems...
...U.S.S. Kentucky from Manhattan to Hong Kong, dining on the way with the Sultan of Turkey. Back in Manhattan in 1901, Mr. Chester went from law to business and back again to law, and then in 1917 he shut up shop and went to Plattsburg to earn a commission as an infantry major...