Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, only two editions had been sold and the book had earned only ?726, or 11? a word. At $210,000, the 14,000 words of The Life of Our Lord are worth $15 each, highest price ever paid for a newspaper syndicate feature. Highest price per word hitherto has been the $3,000 weekly that Will Rogers gets for his small daily column. The McClure Syndicate paid Calvin Coolidge $2 a word for 200 words a day. Arthur Brisbane gets $250,000 a year but not more than 25? a word. President Roosevelt has not written for newspapers since...
...Astor Hotel. Campaign leaders wanted to handle the replies at their professional headquarters but the maestro's mail has become his consuming interest. He cuts engagements short, rushes home between rehearsals to see if more letters have come. Those he receives he spreads out on his cherished piano, hitherto sacred to his mementoes of Wagner and Verdi. In a Manhattan court appeared thread bare Emma Swift Hammerstein, 51, third wife of the late Oscar Hammerstein, to sue Arthur Hammerstein, her unfriendly stepson, for nonsupport. Four years ago when she was found guilty of vagabondage, Mr. Hammerstein offered to support...
...Secretary Carroll Benton Huntress of the National Coal Association, had addressed the gathering. Never before had the union boasted so many members (360,000), never before had so many delegates (1,700) attended a U. M. W. convention. There was a whole sea of new faces, delegates from areas hitherto un-unionized before the NRA coal code took effect. President Roosevelt, whose recovery program had raised every miner's pay check from 20% to 300%, was God-blessed as the greatest humanitarian since Lincoln...
...opening of the reading room and the stacks will be a special blessing to graduate students and instructors, for whom the hours after six o'clock constitute the only convenient time for study and research, and to undergraduates living outside the Houses, who have hitherto had no access ot library facilities for their evening study. The restoration of the old hours will also end the congestion in the stacks which has resulted from the increased volume of work to be done in the afternoons and it well mean an increase in the opportunity for the borrowing of books without breaking...
Proudly he announced that the Federal Radio Commission had approved RCA's application to expand its domestic radio system, which has hitherto been confined to a transcontinental circuit between Manhattan and San Francisco. In Chicago, Washington, New Orleans and Boston RCA will erect stations to compete directly with the telegraph companies. And between Manhattan and Philadelphia it will start the first domestic radio facsimile service in the U. S. If successful, RCA hopes to expand this type of service throughout the U. S. Such a move would put RCA in a strategic bargaining position for the huge communications merger...