Word: ledger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children participated during his first term, became aware in April 1934 that Franklin and Ethel du Pont were companions. The discovery was inescapable because the pair was attending a wrestling match in Philadelphia and Franklin, objecting to being photographed at the ringside, made a flying tackle at the Ledger's photographer and smashed his camera. "This man was taking a photograph of me," explained Franklin, "and I don't like to have my photograph taken." A member of his family has since revealed that a good part of Franklin's dislike of being photographed at Philadelphia...
...Philadelphia Public Ledger. They got their idea from Benjamin Day's New York Sun, which had been pleasing Manhattan's masses and enriching its proprietor at a penny a copy since 1833. Sledding hard in Philadelphia, Partners Simmons and Swain left it to Partner Abell to see that the Sun shone successfully on Baltimore. The story of the Sun therefore became the story of Partner Abell, of his descendants, and of their business and journalistic heirs. Last week that story was published by four able writers, all employes of the Sun, in as comprehensive a biography...
...Alfred A. Knopf ($3.75). -After these revolving presses had been in successful operation at the Sun and Public Ledger for two years, the London Times was still solemnly assuring its readers that the Hoe cylinder was a physical impossibility...
Added to this debit was the bill for the year's staggering total of gold and silver imports-$1,210,000,000. Thus the grand total on the debit side of the U. S. ledger...
...iron hand, insists on punctuality, obedience, deference. To a young shipboard visitor on his recent trip he growled: "Boy, take off your cap!" Philadelphia newspapers know better than to print anything the Archbishop might take offense at, for a boycott may fall such as once forced the Public Ledger to apologize abjectly for a story quoting Katharine Mayo in disparagement of Philippine missions. More interested in archdiocesan than in national Catholic affairs, Cardinal Dougherty typically interpreted the Church's attitude toward the cinema in his own way, declaring a complete boycott which, though no longer enforced, still stands. Austere...