Word: fee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best connections turned out to be his own attorney, Paul Dillon, a Missouri lawyer who was Harry Truman's campaign manager when the President was elected to the Senate in 1934. Dillon once received a $10,000 fee for getting a Capone henchman paroled. Mississippi Congressman John B. Williams, on the floor of the House, angrily referred to Dillon as "a rascal, an underworld character, a fixer, an influence peddler." Another of Hood's Washington "contact men" is Acey Carraway, former financial director of the Democratic National Committee, to whom Hood says he still pays $500 a month...
...into conditions of work, hours of rehearsal, rates of pay ($170 minimum for an hour-long show plus 22 hours of rehearsal), and such esoteric specialties as doubling, warmups, remotes, live repeats and after-shows. Heller is particularly proud of a clause which guarantees all performers their full original fee if a kinescope of a show is ever re-used...
...Then it tried to get into the power business through the backdoor. Under law, the bureau is obliged to give preference in the sale of public power to such public customers as municipalities. Therefore, the bureau asked P.G. & E. to deliver some Government power to "preference customers" on a fee basis, instead of buying it and then reselling it. Black refused, saying it would simply be turning over some of his best customers to the Government. At that, the bureau went to Congress again, asking for its own transmission lines and steam plants...
Their best customer turned out to be the U.S. Government. The Atomic Energy Commission alone bought 358 of them. For this one transaction, Green paid a $125,000 agent's fee...
...these all rich men's daughters, the article proudly noted. Of Smith's enrollment of over 2,200, about four-fifths can't meet the expenses, which start with a basic fee of $1600 for tuition, room, and heard. In a later survey, "Scan" found Smith offers more self-help than any other of the "Big Seven" women's colleges. Needy students, it reported, could knock about $250 off their college fees, for instance, by living in a dormitory where students did all the housework, including the buying and preparation of food...