Word: money
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finally blew out the cork. His big idea: Stay out of war. Why? Because: "We all went out in the last war to abolish all former diplomatic games of seven-toed pete with deuces wild. . . . With smiles and smirks our associates accepted our childish enthusiasms-while they took our money and our lives. . . . We were told we were going to get international decency. Boy, look at the damn thing...
...rescued them. Danes were furious. Aside from the coldbloodedness of this attack, it followed on the heels of Germany's seizure of four Danish ships, three carrying butter, eggs and bacon to Britain, one timber to The Netherlands. These seizures, which would never be paid for in real money, were gross violations of Germany's reiterated promise to let Denmark trade freely with all belligerents...
...Most Rev. Bernard James Sheil, Auxiliary bishop of Chicago, good friend of labor, good friend of youth, founder of the Catholic Youth Organization. The other was the godfather of the town, His Eminence George William Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, great liberal of the Church, great builder and money-raiser for the sprawling archdiocese he had headed for nearly a quarter of a century. The speech over which they worked was to be delivered next evening at a C. Y. O. convention in Cincinnati. Bishop Sheil was to speak it, but it represented the thoughts of Cardinal Mundelein. His thoughts...
...theatre town Milwaukee is underweight; its two barnlike theatres just mosey along. No light chore was it, therefore, when Off-and-On-Broadway Myron C. Pagan tackled Milwaukee's carriage trade last June to back a repertory company. But Fagan got his money, and last month started producing...
...treatise on the U. S. art of crooning, Henderson and Palmer's book will cause no Flagstads to sprout. But its canny appraisal of the ins & outs of popular song-singing may well make it the aspiring mike-moaner's Bible. Do you want to make big money singing songs for the U. S. radio and cinema public? Then stay away from highbrow vocal teachers, never mind your high C ("Many girls have made fortunes without ever coming within an octave of it"). Concentrate on naturalness and intimacy. Learn how to act at auditions, how to win fans...