Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...syndicate's payroll for $1,000 a month, on General Tire's payroll for another $1,000. He was "loaned" $10,000, promised one-third ($700,000 worth) of Equitable's common stock to dispose of as he liked. He was promised campaign contributions on the eve of the Walker election and so lavishly "entertained" that Entertainer J. Allan Smith was dropped from the syndicate. Throughout these dealings, which ended when the syndicate and Mayor Walker failed to get sufficient financial backing for the State Transit Commission to countenance the project, telegrams referred, apparently meaning Mayor Walker...
...fortnight. Managing Editor James P. Bicket was replaced by quiet, gentle-mannered Royal Daniel Jr., one time managing editor of Hearst's Boston Advertiser and lately of the Washington Herald. Reason: small, smart William A. Curley had been in town. Now managing editor of the profitable New York Eve ning Journal, which he has built up as he built up the Chicago American and Los Angeles Herald, "Bill" Curley is Publisher Hearst's chief "trouble-shooter." From his Manhattan headquarters he dashes about to Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Mil waukee, doctoring Hearst evening papers, advising changes, sometimes hiring...
Governor Roosevelt's California cam paign was managed mostly by leaders of the State's Democratic organization. His energetic young son James went out to electioneer. On primary eve the Roosevelt forces made prodigious claims about sweeping the State. A Smith campaign had been conducted by good 1928 friends of the Brown Derby - Parson M. Abbott, David F. Supple, Edward W. Cahill -whose strategy was to depend on old loyalties rather than new issues. Meantime the Garner candidacy was backed by three potent Californians - William Gibbs McAdoo, William Randolph Hearst, Will Rogers. The onetime Secretary of the Treasury...
Just at dusk last week, long snakelike strings of firecrackers pip-popped from the trees in the Retiro, Madrid's sprawling city park. Gaping crowds spread over the lawns to watch pinwheels swoosh round, rockets sizzle high into the sky. It was the eve of the first birthday of Spain's Republic, the anniversary of the day Alfonso XIII fled from his country. Airplanes dropped 50,000 little red, yellow and purple parachutes; there were gala football matches and bullfights. Pink with pleasure, tousle-haired President Niceto Alcala Zamora reviewed 10,000 troops in the Castellana avenue, presided...
Suggestions from the present members of Eliot House as to the composition of the House next year are solicited in a notice posted on the bulletin boards yesterday evening, on the eve of the closing date for Freshman applications for the Houses...