Word: fee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night at 9 over CBS. The Original Amateur Hour, as virtually every U. S. radio listener knows, is Opportunity Night on a national scale. Four years ago last week Major Bowes put it there, after a tryout year at Manhattan's WHN. Now the Major draws down a fee which the radio business covertly estimates at $20,000 a week for producing the radio program, collects between $10,000 and $15,000 weekly on the side from U. S. theatres for appearances of road-company units of 20-25 successful Original Amateur Hour performers...
WASHINGTON--Former Sen. Fred H. Brown of New Hampshire, burly, red-faced New Dealer and fee of public utilities, was nominated today by President Roosevelt to be Comptroller General, one of the most powerful positions in the government service...
...third Council proposal, that out-of-House men be given athletic secretaries and full intramural facilities, has already been put into effect. In addition the Masters voted that associate members be charged a fee of $25 to "meet the additional expense which will be made necessary by the admission of extra members...
...Federal Trade Commission issued cease-&-desist papers against Angelo Siciliano (naked name: Charles Atlas), mailorder musclebuilder. Their orders: that he stop using the word "free" in connection with a ten-volume Sex Encyclopedia offer (customers get them after they have paid up all of a $20 fee for lessons), stop stating that his course relieves skin diseases and constipation, tone down his claims that he can make his customers look something like himself ("World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" in a leopardskin loincloth). Hopping mad, Strongman Atlas gritted: "Why don't they leave me alone with...
...recurring problem include the establishment of a "greater Boston" metropolitan unit, whereby Boston would share the expenses of servicing Harvard, the allocation of costs of servicing Massachusetts' many educational institutions among all the tax-payers of the Commonwealth; and the payment of Harvard to the city of a "service fee," similar to that now being paid by F. H. A. projects