Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared in Drug Topics two years ago, Congressman Patman did not bother to deny publicly the company's claim. Last week he denied it with heat: "McKesson & Robbins has never paid me in connection with anti-chain store legislation or anything else." Mr. Patman said he got his money from the Brady Speakers Bureau in Manhattan...
Ironic angle: the money which George Berry wanted, Tom Stewart did not want. By accepting it he would accept Senatorhood before his term as Attorney-General expires, which would give Tennessee's Governor Browning (his and Boss Ed Crump's enemy) a chance to handpick an interim Attorney-General...
...compromise Mergenthaler's President Joseph T. Mackey proposed to put 10% (about $200,000) of his annual wage bill in escrow, the sum to revert to the company if it lost money next year, to go to the workers if a profit was earned. When young Mr. Carey's young deputy, William Mitchell, turned this down, New York labor mediators suggested that Mergenthaler continue to pay 95% of present wages, put 5% in escrow until September 1939. To this Messrs. Mackey and Mitchell last week consented. At fiscal year's end, an impartial arbitrator will go over...
...picking Miss America, David Lasser had his witnesses choose Mr. & Mrs. WPA Worker of 1938. As the No. 1 Missus of Relief, they named Mrs. Stanley Jorgensen of Provo, Utah. Provo merchants had chipped in $100 to pay her way to Washington so she could ask for more WPA money to go into storekeepers' tills. Mrs. Jorgensen's husband supports her and two children on $44 a month, of which he pays $15 for rent on a single room, $18 for groceries. A Mormon, Mrs. Jorgensen said her church's famed work-for-relief system...
David Lasser hoped his performance would influence Messrs. Williams and Harry Hopkins to influence Franklin Roosevelt to influence Congress to put up more Relief money. Harry Hopkins last week showed no desire to raise his rolls. Instead, he announced that in the week ended December 10, WPA's total of dependents fell 45,514 to 3,139,045, having declined for five successive weeks from a peak...