Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey Democratic Nominee Alexander Simpson is making just the sort of campaign for the Senate against Republican Nominee Dwight Whitney Morrow that G. O. P. leaders deplore loudest. Nominee Simpson's attack: "This isn't a political campaign. It's a crusade against intolerable conditions. . . . Five million people walking the streets looking for work! Do you assume the people will . . . say to Hoover: 'You're all right. ... We want more men in the breadlines . . . more businessmen out of business . . . more farmers bankrupt? . . . The people are going to tell the President he has to do more...
Kept ten years behind the times by governmental shackles, Armour and Swift, biggest U. S. meatpackers. last week again attempted to catch up with the current procession of food merchandising. With Frank J. Hogan, "million-dollar" Washington attorney, as their chief counsel, they reopened one of the most famed Government v. Business suits when they pleaded before the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for the right to sell other things than meat...
...than they are now. The Metropolitan Opera continues to ignore radio. The Chicago Civic Company will follow its plan of the past three years: broadcast one act of opera a week, probably Wednesday evenings (N. B. C.). Again Walter Damrosch will give his educational concerts. Two years ago a million schoolchildren listened to his regular Friday morning programs. Last week's audience was estimated at approximately eight millions...
...Last summer Picasso refused 750,000 francs ($30,000) from the Copenhagen Museum for a painting. He asked and expects to get one million francs...
Baseballer Babe Rtith. "Far from being 'a man in a million,' [he] is at least one man in 50 or 60 million. . . . Were men paid according to the scarcity of rivals who can do their work equally well, Babe Ruth should be receiving at least ten million dollars a year, instead of the paltry 80 thousand he now pockets...