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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years I spent in Tennessee in college and a year abroad. Despite the fact I've been sued for $75,000 I owe a lot of people in Greenup County and it is to their interest to see that I stay until I get my debts paid in full. Petty politicians and constables with blackjacks are not running me out either...
When the advertisements 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...
...suggested for study: 1) a specific old-age-insurance trust fund with designated trustees for all receipts (now paid into the general Treasury fund); 2) reorganizing the fund from a full reserve into a "reasonable contingency fund," with the Government paying in direct subsidies to balance the increasing benefits paid...
...Limited Editions Club, de luxe adaptation of the Book-of-the-Month Club, mailed its first choice to 1,100 subscribers on Black Wednesday (Oct. 23, 1929). It was a handsomely printed, illustrated edition of Gulliver's Travels, cost $10 C. O.D., $9 to subscribers who paid in advance ($108 a year). Compared with the limited editions of George Macy's rivals, it was a bargain. Later in Depression the bargain seemed less evident, but The Limited Editions Club flourished just the same. The reason was George Macy. A publisher before he was out of Columbia University, Macy...
...publication was a book of sketches, priced at $7.50, which he peddled himself. Booksellers took one look-an unknown publisher, an unknown author, an unheard-of price!-and wrote him off as crazy. Publisher Connett, a serene glitter in his eye, was not crazy at all. For men who paid $500 for a gun, $75 for a fishing rod, $250 for a dog, $1,500 for a horse, said he, Derrydale prices were chicken feed. He was right. Derrydale books sold just as well at $25, $50, $125. Last year Connett sold 44 copies of a book on salmon fishing...