Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texas, where Democrats have a U. S. Supreme Court decision empowering them to close their primaries to Negroes on the ground that the Democratic Party has the status of a private club in regulating its membership, the news that 1,500 Negroes had nevertheless voted in Fort Worth in last month's primary provoked a bitter intraparty squabble...
...Nevertheless, only a few U. S. publishers, network radio's chief competitors for advertising contracts, could be supposed last week to be sitting on an eight-month gross so large and comfortable as that enjoyed by the big three broadcasters...
...when the networks had a larger part in finding and developing talent for advertisers to buy. President Paley takes credit for "discovering" Kate Smith, Morton Downey, Bing Crosby. But more recently advertising agencies have found how to do this job for themselves, need less help from the networks. Nevertheless, President Paley is still very much in show business. About five-eighths of Columbia's time is sustaining, must be filled with free shows. CBS prides itself on its dramatic workshop, its spot-news coverage and particularly on the American School of the Air, its new adult education campaign...
...years. Day before Richard Whitney went to jail he offered Giles Wetherill his near-defunct Florida Humus Co. ''for the price of a good automobile"; but Wetherill said he wanted peat bogs, not lawsuits. Humus has sold a piddling 10,000 tons per year, has nevertheless made a small profit since 1934. American Peat's production plans call for 125,000 bales the first year, ultimately 500,000 a year...
Tender-skinned readers nevertheless found his novel as painful an experience as having themselves tattooed...