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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York proclaimed a technical "emergency" in the matter of his wages, had his Board of Estimate raise him from $25,000 to $40,000 per annum, thus becoming the highest-paid public official in the land excepting the U. S. President ($75,000). Defending the idea, said he: "I don't need the money. If it became a sporting proposition, I'd bet on the turn of a coin the amount of the raise...
Bootlegging. "Largest and best paying racket in Boston." An annual $60,000,000 is spent in Boston's 4,000 speakeasies or paid to 5,000 Bostonian bootleggers. The liquor ring is bossed by a onetime policeman who on the side dabbles in a trucking business, restaurants, cigar stores, pool rooms, an amusement arena, prize fighters...
...when the State Democratic Executive Committee read him out of the party (27-21). The 120,000 rank-and-file Alabama Democrats who voted for Hoover were not drummed out of camp, only warned that a vote in the primaries would be a promise of party regularity. Leader Heflin paid the penalty to which leadership is liable...
...Moulin Rouge in Paris, police quelled a riot of Frenchmen incensed at the discovery that they had paid good francs to see The Fox Movietone Follies? in English...
That such a tremendous company should again face depression indicated to British financiers that the "Lord of the Seven Seas" had placed his K upon some orders that were unwise. Especially did this seem plausible in view of the belief that Lord Kylsant is paid not a salary nor a percentage of the profits, but a percentage of the gross. Thus more ships, more lines, terrific expansion, would have brought more pounds sterling into the Kylsant coffers even if they brought less to the Royal Mail treasury. And, according to Scandal, last week's trouble indicated that of late...