Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the chairman of the full Committee, old (80) Edward Taylor of Colorado, announced after a White House conference (at which he promised a a $994,000 irrigation project in Colorado's Delta County), that this time he would handle the $150,000,000 item himself, and that he was for it. "Purge!" cried the anti-Spenders and set their heels down harder than ever...
...colleague who made the remark to Graham Patterson referred to in an item in the Feb. 27 issue of TIME entitled "God Pity the Farmers" I feel constrained to correct the impression contained in that comment. ... I cannot ignore the implied reflection on the character of Mr. Patterson. Your editors, without permission, have seen fit to broadcast to hundreds of thousands of people, entirely out of its setting, a purely joking remark made among close friends. Your editors in their typical flippant manner have elevated a bit of careless joshing into an appraisal of character, which has no basis...
...those of us who are proud to be numbered among the friends of Graham Patterson his Christian character needs no defense, but I sincerely hope you will find a way to correct the impression your item must have made on his many unknown friends among Christian Herald and Farm Journal readers...
...year to King Features, which was owned by Mr. Hearst's privately owned American Newspapers Inc. And in 1935 Hearst sold his Baltimore, Atlanta and San Antonio papers to Hearst Consolidated for $8,000,000 (of which $6,000,000 was for the familiar item of "circulation, press franchises, reference libraries, etc.") in spite of the fact that these same papers had lost $550,000 in 1934. But other Hearstpapers were losing even more (the New York American lost around $1,000,000 a year), and real-estate values had toppled. Hearst was hopelessly mired in extravagance and debt...
...with the job. The Circle's, original members were Ronald Colman, a ten-year holdout against radio work; Cinemactress Carole Lombard; Leading Man Gary Grant; Baritone Lawrence Tib-bett; Groucho and Chico Marx; Robert Emmett Dolan and his orchestra. Early guests were Pianist Jose Iturbi, with a swing item in his repertory and "okeydokey" in his vocabulary, and Noel Coward, who upstaged everybody, gave Carole stagefright...