Word: fee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taste for selfless public service showed up early. As a young lawyer making his way in Lincoln, Neb., he became counsel for the Lincoln Board of Trade and soon tangled with the railroads over discriminatory freight rates. He never asked for or received a fee in these freight-rate cases. "It is a good, steady job without pay," he wrote philosophically. Described on an 1889 list of eligible bachelors as an "antimonopoly agitator" with the "neatest mustache in Lincoln," Dawes fluttered the hearts of the local belles. But his own heart belonged then, and for the next 62 years...
...Kansas legislature's special investigating committee was at last ready with its report on the case of Republican National Chairman Charles Wesley Roberts. The committee found that Roberts "deliberately and intentionally" violated the "spirit" of the Kansas lobbying law in 1951. Roberts had taken an $11,000 fee from an insurance company for selling a hospital building to the state. He had not lobbied in the traditional sense, i.e., he did not ask legislators to vote for the sale, but he had talked to state officials. He did not hold any state or party office at the time...
Deacon Farrar finds the right tune for a paper not in his office (he has none) or his Laguna Beach, Calif, home but in a hotel room in the city where he is working. There, for a fee of about $100 a day and up, he cuts up heads from piles of old newspapers, pastes the letters into new arrangements, makes as many as 50 sample dummies. (Once a frightened chambermaid told the hotel manager: "There's a crazy man upstairs cutting out paper dolls.") Then Farrar "indoctrinates" the staff on how to put the changes into effect...
...spotted by a scout for Universal Pictures. He dangled a Hollywood offer before her, but Ros sat down to read all the fine print and suggested a few hardheaded revisions. They finally settled on giving her an expenses-paid trip to the West Coast and a flat fee of $100 for each screen test...
...Natural History, in case anyone wants a playback 100 years from now. This week Berns spent about two hours lining up the guests for his next show: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Al Capp, Author Charles G. (The Next Million Years) Darwin, Eleanor Roosevelt. The guests will appear without fee, which is exactly what Berns has to spend on the show. On past programs, he has preserved the pop of bubble gum, statements from Grandma Moses and Sam Goldwyn, a conversation between London and Manhattan cabbies...