Word: paid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What happened here was that a spanish bum and red did throw some Orange peels at a german marine while they paid their respect to our great martyr "Marti" at his monument with a flower design...
...Universal Service and INS to flash them worldwide news, King Features Syndicate to dish out comics and boilerplate philosophy, the scandalsheet American Weekly to boost Sunday circulation into the multimillions. He had a string of magazines, a newsreel, a motion-picture company. He had the world's highest paid stable of writers and editors. And he made more money than any other publisher before or since...
...seven and a half years the preferred stockholders got their 7% and Hearst got a great deal more. He got over $12,000,000 in common stock dividends. Publicly-owned Hearst Consolidated newspapers paid $2,000,000 a year to King Features, which was owned by Mr. Hearst's privately owned American Newspapers Inc. And in 1935 Hearst sold his Baltimore, Atlanta and San Antonio papers to Hearst Consolidated for $8,000,000 (of which $6,000,000 was for the familiar item of "circulation, press franchises, reference libraries, etc.") in spite of the fact that these same papers...
...charge, pleaded not guilty. On trial last week, he changed his plea, threw himself on the mercy of the court. His daughter, Martha Dodd Stern, testified that he had declined mentally and physically since the death of his wife last spring. His lawyer said that he had already paid over $1,100 in hospital and doctors' bills to Glois Grimes's parents. The judge, who might have sent tired old Dr. Dodd to jail, fined him $250 and costs...
Alfred Hitchcock's prize winning film "The Lady Vanishes" now at the University is a light, fast-moving, neatly constructed adventure mystery. It is not surprising that there has been a great deal of attention paid to the directing of the picture; the dramatic course of events dominates every other aspect of the picture. Having taken some time to set the stage, Mr. Hitchcock then builds up the story to a high peak of action and suspense from which it never drops till the very end. The characters, passengers on a continental train, are carefully molded to fit the plot...