Word: ledger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newark is a tabloid newspaper called the Ledger, published by a brawny, hot-tempered Westerner named Lucius T. Russell Sr. Setting himself up in Newark some 15 years ago, Publisher Russell attracted instant attention with a local vice crusade, splashed pictures of Newark brothels with names of the property owners daily on the Ledger's front.page. His crack rewrite man was Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, later to win the Pulitzer Prize for his European correspondence for the old New York Evening Post (TIME...
...Newark Newspaper Guild tried to engage in collective bargaining. An importunate Guild committeeman, after thrice vainly requesting an interview with him, mentioned section 7 (a) and the Regional Labor Board in a letter. Fortnight ago Publisher Russell answered by posting a notice on the Ledger bulletin board...
...Kansas City. The house alone cost $575,226.07. Inside was placed a profusion of Austrian hand-tufted carpets, tapestries, urns, silverware, china, pictures, bric-a-brac, chandeliers, for which Mr. Long paid $207,763.57. There were Oriental rugs in every bathroom. House and contents were listed on his personal ledger as an $11 asset. Last week more than 1,000 Kansas Citizens gratified a long-cherished ambition to see the inside of the Long house. Up for auction was everything Lumberman Long possessed except the sets of Dickens, Eliot and Bulwer-Lytton which lined the walls of the little...
Curtis-Martin published the Inquirer along with their Public Ledger and Evening Ledger for four years, but the Philadelphia newspaper seas were heavy. Last spring Publisher Martin, who had already cut loose one of his stepfather-in-law's newspapers (New York Evening Post), tried to trim his load further by merging the Inquirer and Public Ledger (TIME, April 16). Last week he abandoned ship. The Inquirer, combined with what is left of the Public Ledger, will be taken in tow again by the Elversons as salvage for the notes which profits evidently...
Along with Mr. Howard on the credit side of Keep Moving's ledger is a vulgar man named Clyde Hager. Right out of Gasoline Bill Baker's "Pipes from Pitch men" department in The Billboard, Mr. Hager, clutching suitcase and stand, scuttles back & forth across the stage pursued by a policeman until late in Act I. Then, setting up his tripes and keister, he proceeds to vend his patent potato peeler. It is all very authentic, with many protestations that his company is really giving away its product for advertising purposes and is willing to throw...