Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committees, could doubtless be shelved by a nice Federal appointment. So, perhaps, could ambitious Tom Courtney, who might even be set up to succeed Governor Horner. Having him for Mayor of Chicago would be no fun for the New Deal either since he is the personal candidate of Colonel Frank Knox's Daily News. Some surprising deal was seen in the making when Tom Courtney visited Harold Ickes in Washington over the weekend...
...Frank Gillmore, president of Associated Actors & Artistes of America, proposed that all Broadway shows begin one evening performance each week at 6:30. His reason: to lure suburbanites, "who object to getting home after midnight...
...snowy slopes of the Sierras by way of the Owens Valley Aqueduct ($25,000,000). And when the people of the Los Angeles region promptly multiplied to 3,000,000, he set out to fetch them the Colorado at a cost of $200,000,000. In charge of Engineer Frank Elwin Weymouth, the job gave work to 45,000 men, fun and head aches to no less than 300 engineers. The last tunnel was holed through by blasting last month. Expectations were At the rubble would be cleared by next week, that by next summer Colorado River water would start...
...biggest wastepaper converters in the East, Clifton is a family-owned business. The family is the Desiderios, father and seven sons. Frank Desiderio, a strapping, grey-haired Italian, arrived in the U. S. in 1904, penniless, unemployed, unable to speak English. On borrowed money he bought a pushcart, tramped Newark's streets collecting wastepaper. In two years he had a horse and wagon, traded them for a two-cylinder Autocar in 1918. By 1926 the Desiderios owned a 100-truck fleet. When the old Clifton firm went bankrupt six years ago, they turned up with a batch of uncollected...
...Frank Desiderio, 64, is the boss, but his seven sons - Thomas, 39, Anthony, 37, Dominic, 35, Arnold, 33, John, 31, Salvatore, 27, and Michael, 22 - manage the $2,500,000-a-year business. Diminutive, flashy-eyed Tony, who started pushing the pushcart at 9, is President. All the Desiderios are hard workers, have no high-priced executives or stockholders to worry about. All three of their plants were in the red when they bought them; all three have thrived since...