Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boss of Kansas City. When Pendergast was indicted last month for evading Federal income taxes on $315,000 of alleged boodle received in 1935 from an insurance rate "fixing" (TIME, April 17), one man quizzed closely by the Treasury's agents was Edward L. Schneider, secretary-treasurer of eight of the Boss's businesses. Fortnight ago, presumably on Schneider's testimony primarily, Boss Pendergast was indicted again, this time for evading taxes on $128,550 income in 1936. Arraigned last week, the Boss pleaded not guilty to both indictments...
Last week the mental strain was more than sensitive Yankee Gehrig could bear. The highest-salaried ($34,000 a year) baseballer in the major leagues had succeeded in getting only four hits and driving in only one run in the first eight games of the season. Every time he went to bat he felt that all the baseball fans in the world could hear him creak. When he got a hit he ran as though there were lead in his shoes. He missed low throws and grounders. Convinced that he was a hindrance rather than a help to his team...
...adopting infants. Average age of foster parents, however, is around 40, since most persons wait for adoption until they are convinced that they can have no children of their own. Great- est favorites are golden-haired little girls, around two years old. Last to go are mischievous boys of eight...
...undisputed first lady of radio as of 1939 is 235-lb., 29-year-old Contralto Kate Smith. For eight successful radio years Kate Smith has used her booming, unschooled voice, plus occasional bursts of hearty Americanism to sell millions of dollars worth of cigars, automobiles, coffee and, since 1937, General Foods cake flour, baking powder and salt. From her paychecks she has tucked away $1,000,000, mostly in Government bonds, but she is still unmarried, lives alone. She has won 15,000,000 weekly listeners, but she can count scarcely a dozen intimate friends...
...founded the Society for Sanity in Art, Inc. Last week, at Chicago's Stevens Hotel, the Society came of age with its first national exhibition. Mrs. Logan turned up early, dressed in pink lace, pink gloves, diamond and emerald bracelets, a hat of feathers and flowers. While an eight-piece orchestra played her favorite tunes and she-befeathered, beflowered and bemused-sat humming them, a crowd, many of them oldsters, peered at 255 sane exhibits, murmured brightly: "Isn't it wonderful to see real painting again?" First of the eleven prizes went to Chauncey Ryder...