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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right after the battle of Actium; Antony has his place in the sun as her good friend; and as for Novresibus, well the name of Novresibus is just one more name that during the succeeding 100 years the Roman youngsters-excuse me, moppets-were obliged to memorize in the list of officeholders, in their history class at school...
...list of pocket-sized monthly magazines on the U. S. newsstand, a newcomer was added this week in the shape of Commentator, with Radio's Commentator Lowell Thomas billed as editor-in-chief. Backer-in-chief was Charles Shipman Payson, the tall, rusty-haired Manhattan lawyer whom Jock Whitney's sister Joan married. His ambition to be a publisher appears to have been fired by the thought that the commentators of radio probably had facts & opinions to give the world which radio's timorous self-censorship bottles up before the microphone...
...consumption, allow the index to run where it will. For customers used to the Bradstreet index started in 1892 Dun & Bradstreet also computes the combined per-lb. prices of 96 items. This monthly index was at $6.35 in March 1933, is now at $11.14. The Annalist uses a long list of commodities with 1913 as 100. For its old-fashioned readers the Annalist also calculates its wholesale commodity price index in terms of old gold dollars. Last week, in Roosevelt dollars, the index stood at 139.3, in Hoover dollars...
...House Ways & Means Committee last week opened for public inspection two fat typewritten volumes containing the names of U. S. employes receiving salaries, commissions and bonuses totaling more than $15,000 in 1935. Not to be confused with the corporate salary schedules required by the Securities & Exchange Commission, this list was compiled from income tax returns. Highest-paid individual in the land that year was William Randolph Hearst, who drew $500,000 as head of Hearst Consolidated Publications Inc. A close second was Mae West. For her box-office sex appeal, the corporeal basis of which she has had immortalized...
...list was not without its oddities...