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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among other claimants to the remains of the Great Discoverer are Seville, Spain, and Genoa, Italy. Many historians now agree with Trujillo that Seville's claims have been severely shaken. To Genoa's claims, little attention is paid. In company with Mrs. Fish and the Fish's 13-year-old son, Hammy, and dignitaries of Church & State, the U. S. Congressmen were feted, shown about spick & span Ciudad Trujillo, finally were invited to the Cathedral to view their host's Columbian relics...
Pointe Coupée eventually diverted its inheritance to building a school, but except in the Civil War years, West Baton Rouge annually had distributed the interest on Julien Poydras' money to dark, full-breasted Creole brides. Of the $2,400 or so paid each year, the poorest brides get the most. Just how much each receives is the secret of the three commissioners who administer the fund. Otherwise, jealousies might cloud the fame of Julien Poydras...
...taxes, it pays not in cash but in the fiat certificates. Meanwhile Heinkel may, if it wishes, use the certificates to help pay for purchases of Duralumin, rivets, engine parts. In transactions other than tax payments certificates may never exceed 40% of the purchase price, the rest to be paid in cash. What the plan really comes down to is using future taxes for present needs...
...best-paid man in the radio business is Major Edward Bowes, unctuous dominie of Chrysler's Original Amateur Hour each Thursday night at 9 over CBS. The Original Amateur Hour, as virtually every U. S. radio listener knows, is Opportunity Night on a national scale. Four years ago last week Major Bowes put it there, after a tryout year at Manhattan's WHN. Now the Major draws down a fee which the radio business covertly estimates at $20,000 a week for producing the radio program, collects between $10,000 and $15,000 weekly on the side from...
...this is velvet, of course. The Major has a big and well-paid staff of 65, pays salaries of $50 to $100 a week to unit performers (now numbering about 100), foots the bill for musicians, producers, coaches, unit booking, management and traveling expenses. To each of the 20 or so amateurs chosen each week for the broadcast from among 500 selected applications he gives $10 and all the performer can eat on the evening of the broadcast. The Major's net is a secret closely guarded by the Major and his militantly loyal staff, but radio is agreed...