Word: madams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shunted from apartment to apartment, said Prosecutor Dewey, "in the manner of an Orpheum circuit," usually spending a week in one place, sometimes two or three if they were popular. Most places were two-girl houses; some had only one, a few three. Each house was run by a madam whose job was to rent the apartment, hire a maid, solicit customers...
Earnings of a syndicate prostitute averaged $300 per week. Of this she paid 50% to her current madam, 10% of the remainder to her booker, $25 to $35 for a week's board, $5 for medical examination and care, $10 to the syndicate for bonding. That left $75 to $100 per week for herself. When a house was raided and a girl arrested, the madam would telephone a man named "Binge," who in turn notified one of the syndicate's bondsmen. The madam had to put up half the girl's bail, usually...
Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, from "Tannhauser"Wagner Overture, "Le Roi I'a dit" Delibes *Minuet from String Quintet Boccherini *Fantasia, "Madam Butterfly" Puccini Suite, "The Two Pigeons" (after La Fontaine) Messager Entrance of the Gypsies--Scene and Dance of the Two Pigeous-Divertissement ungarian Dance *Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmi *Polovetzkian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin *Selection, "Mile, Modiate" Herbert *"Danube Waves," Waltzes Ivanoviel *"We Saw the Sea," from "Follow the Fleet" Berlin Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...Congressmen. As he did so, into the chamber filed Representatives Ulysses S. (for Samuel) Guyer of Kansas, John J. O'Connor of New York and Mary T. Norton of New Jersey. Behind them filed Mrs. Thomas David Schall, widow of the late Senator from Minnesota, in full mourning; Madam Senator Long, widow of the late Senator Huey Pierce Long; a dozen other relatives of the seven Congressmen who had died in the last year...
...tied up the Panama Pacific Line's S. S. California for four days in San Pedro last month (TIME, March 16), Secretary of Commerce Roper talked boldly about having the ringleaders prosecuted for mutiny. That there were no prosecutions was generally attributed to the White House influence of Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins to whom the right to strike, on land or sea, is said to have a strong sentimental appeal...