Word: liere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Radio Today, Outdoor Advertising, Inc., Publishers' Information Bureau, Editor & Pub Usher and Printers' Ink. *Eight in order: Saturday Evening Post, Col lier's, American Weekly, Good Housekeeping, TIME, LIFE, Woman's Home Companion, Ladies' Home Journal...
...cafe workers, still waiting to be included in the 40-hour setup, staged a noisy demonstration to protest against employers who refuse to grant shorter working hours during the impending tourist season. To appease them the French Government had already been obliged to abolish the Droit de Tab-lier ("Right of the Apron"), the "privilege" of waiters, hat-checkers, washroom attendants, doorkeepers to pay their employers for allowing them to work for tips. In some swank Paris cafés this has cost waiters as much as 100 francs ($4.43) a week. Bricklayers, plumbers, plasterers were keeping the Premier jittery...
...party as the Communists will have a total broadcasting bill of $35,000 with National Broadcasting alone. The same firm announced that the Republican National Committee had up to last week spent $265,000 for use of its networks, and the Democratic National Committee -which had the advantage ear lier in the campaign of "free air" for sev eral of the President's "non-political" speeches -had spent $165,000. By the time Alf Landon makes his final broadcast from 10 p. m. to 11 p. m. on election eve the Republicans will have incurred an additional NBC bill...
Open-air singing has an intangible charm not always accruing only to the singers themselves; the listeners, too, especially if the Muse be well represented by lier mortal enfulators, are pleasantly aware of an inner harmony with Nature, suggested, no doubt, by the vocal efforts of the performers...