Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union roustabouts to take a 25? pay cut. Last week Mr. North reached into a $250,000 "nut" acquired early in the season, paid off the roustabouts. He also paid off the thin man, the fat woman, the clowns, the midgets, most of whom agreed with Star Performer Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck that they should take the cut, go ahead with the show, and set up a more cooperative union than A. F. of L.'s American Federation of Actors...
...downward, and its remotest part is The Thumb. One day last fortnight in the little town of Ubly farmers from the three northern counties of The Thumb-Huron, Tuscola, Sanilac-gathered for a band concert, a baseball game, a celebration grander than any county fair. Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, a Huron County boy, was there to make a speech. But the biggest attraction in Ubly was a giant generator, whose 3,000 horsepower was ready, when the switch was pulled, to gallop over 542 miles of newly strung electric lines. After dark, many men, women, children, cows...
...Thumb Electric Cooperative, whose members strung the lines and own them, was started almost three years ago by Farmer Frank Wilson and his neighbor, E. C. Stieg. Promoters Wilson, Stieg and their neighbors borrowed $2,000,000 for their cooperative from the Rural Electrification Administration in Washington. What Governor Murphy called the "beginning of a new social order" for The Thumb, which will eventually own 1,300 miles of REA lines, was also a milestone for REA, the most extensive and expensive project it had yet promoted...
With a fifth campaign coming to decision in November, FCC Chairman Frank Ramsay McNinch last week announced that he would lay before his Commission the question of promulgating rules for distributing time to political candidates. A formal petition for campaign regulations recently came from station WTAR (Norfolk, Va.). WTAR was tired of having to take on itself the politically dangerous (as well as costly) responsibility of allotting politicians the use of its station...
...Denmark, Freuchen had a hard time curbing his grizzly-bear strength. (Hugged impulsively by Freuchen, the wife of a German cinema director slumped to the floor unconscious, was taken to the hospital with two broken ribs.) In Denmark Author Freuchen went to work to make money with as much frank delight as if he were harpooning a fine catch of seals. Marrying a beautiful margarine heiress, he began lecturing, wrote Polar news for a Copenhagen newspaper, became editor of a magazine started by his in-laws to lend prestige to the margarine business. When Freuchen was gypped, as when...