Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Political Prisoner. In Washington, D.C., John Cyril Krafka, arrested for burglary, blamed it all on last fall's elections: "I bet $4,000 on Dewey and I had to get the money somehow...
...Shawneetown and Chester, they look at me with a sad expression," he says. "Our shows've been spoiled, they say; the old days are dead." Then, toughening up, he adds: "Of course, we don't care what they come for, just as long as they lay their money down at the box office...
Said he: "We're flat broke and there are not even tangible promises of money, and as far as I can see now the symphony is all washed...
Like the others, Portland's Symphony Society had been able to raise only part of the money it needed: $50,000 in a drive for $140,000. The season had been called off. Unlike the others, Portland's musicians were ready to play at any price. Their solution: 1) the society would use $3,000 for expenses, 2) the musicians would split the box-office receipts, whatever they might turn...
...Question of Gregory, Author Elizabeth Janeway (The Walsh Girls, Daisy Kenyan) tries hard but unconvincingly to show just what her protoplasmic hero would do after that. First John got suddenly drunk in his office. When he sobered up, he withdrew what money he had from the bank and ran out on his wife and on his job in the Department of Public Information. Apparently, all Gregory needed was a chance to stand on his own feet for a while. Jobs as a mechanic in Vermont and Detroit and a brief love affair with his ex-secretary in Washington soon...