Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent years ardent anti-Semite Adolf Hitler and his then leading British admirer, potent London Daily Mail Press Tycoon Viscount Rothermere, conducted their somewhat confused and often ludicrous relations through "Princess Steffi, the Mystery Woman of Europe" (as tabloids tag her), despite the fact that she is a Viennese Jewess. In court, Princess Steffi was able to show that Lord Rothermere has paid her some $185,000 in a period of over five years to be his "foreign political representative." She was now suing to force him to fulfill an alleged promise to pay her $20,000 yearly...
...Mystery Man of Fleet Street" in the years when he was a super-silent business manager and steadying influence on his late elder brother Lord Northcliffe, most brilliant and potent press tycoon the Empire has ever had. In recent years Lord Rothermere, who controls the London Daily Mail, Evening News and Sunday Dispatch, together with a string of prominent provincial papers, has stopped just short of yellow journalism. He was once reported ready to bet some $1,000,000 that his reporters could encircle the globe faster than U. S. newshawks; in 1934 he gave British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley...
Last week, however, a U. S. relief expedition was being readied. In a Portland (Me.) berth, the 118-ft. yacht Liberty, under Capt. Kenneth Simpson, ordered provisions for a South Sea voyage. At Panama, Liberty planned to pick up Pitcairn's radio equipment, mail, whatever else it could find room for, hoped to sight the islands by Christmas...
...Devil and Daniel Webster; eagle-beaked Comic Jimmy Durante paid off with: "T'ank yuh, Boigess. May I call yuh Meredit'?" Much of the continuity was contributed by the U. S.'s No. 1 literary jack-in-the-box, William Saroyan. Volunteer Saroyan mailed in the last of his manuscript Friday night, forgetting Saturday was Armistice Day, a mail holiday. When Sunday came, and no Saroyan, CBS chased him down, had him re-conjure the missing paragraphs...
...family moved to Paterson, N. J. Having no idea where Paterson was, Kaufman was delighted to find it within commuting distance of New York. He was soon commuting regularly-to work in a hatband factory. He also began contributing to F.P.A.'s column in the old Evening Mail. Eventually F.P.A. invited him to lunch, disillusioned him as to what writers looked like, but found a job for him on the Washington Times. When he lost that, Adams got him another on the New York Tribune. Later he became a dramatic reporter on the Tribune, when Heywood Broun was dramatic...