Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First big Manhattan bank to sell preferred stock to the R. F. C., Manufacturers Trust Co. last week took action, announced it would accept $25,000,000 from the R. F. C.* To prove to the public that Manufacturers Trust was just being generous to the Administration and did not need the money, President Harvey Gibson advertised at the same time that the bank's dividend, suspended because of uncertainty during the banking holiday, but continuing to be amply earned, would be resumed...
...Independent National Weekly" the magazine was more than generous to President Roosevelt and all his works...
...that an "Elmer Calling Contest" was held at the Chicago Fair; and nerve-frazzled New Yorkers wrote letters to newspapers about the "malignant growth," the "contagious stupidity" of the greeting. Colyumist Walter Winchell printed a story that "Elmer" was a 300-lb. Brooklyn restaurateur named Elmann Neilsen, good and generous friend of Legionaries who would loudly page him wherever they went. Shrewdly Elmann Neilsen capitalized his fame last week by hanging a sign in his restaurant window: "Here's Elmer." Double-checked Elmer facts are: A division of the "40-&-8" Legion parade in Chicago...
When Lawyer Benjamin H. Ludlow, secretary of the Orchestra Association, at last mounted an auctioneer's stand draped with a red sale-today flag, the bidding was prompt and generous. Debutantes went from table to table collecting written pledges. The players whose music was being auctioned lost some of their selfesteem, but the $17,000 which was raised restored half their last pay cut, gave 600 impoverished music students free tickets for the season...
Mellifluous sentiment oozes from the mouth of Lionel Barrymore. It is a pleasant shock. Only once in his performance as the unselfish country doctor does he resort to his hair-pulling act. "One Man's Journey" depicts the life of a generous rural physician who struggles and struggles to amass enough money for research work. When he has the opportunity to go to the medical center in New York, he is detained because little Letty McGinnis swallows iodine. At the end we see him still struggling in the country. "One Man's Journey" is not an epic...