Word: pay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must have opinions upon this subject and I therefore propose that they be invited to express them. I'm wondering whether the public is really interested or are they too busy in their mad rush watching the ticker in Wall Street, or worrying how to provide funds to pay the next installment on the new car! Perhaps they prefer to leave it to the President's Crime Commission to diagnose the case and propose a suitable remedy...
What used to be the steel trust appeared last winter before the House Ways & Means Committee, declared that the 1922 tariff act had caused the steel industry to pay $45,000,000 in manganese duties without domestic production being benefited or improved. The House was asked to free-list this ore. The House refused...
...doing practically no advertising, But bobbed-haired Catherine McNelis, able president of the McNelis-Weir advertising agency (Manhattan), thought they should. She consulted Woolworth executives, told them of a plan: advertise in magazines, arrange with manufacturers of Woolworth-sold articles to advertise at the same time, the manufacturer to pay for the cost of their pages. Woolworthmen at first turned deaf ears, explained that Woolworth windows were their best advertisements. Miss McNelis persisted, reminded them that 1929 was Woolworth's 50th anniversary, suggested the advertisements be made to look like Woolworth windows. The executives warmed up. They accepted a campaign...
...golf clubmember can either: buy a ball, pay his caddy, have two beers in his club house. For $1, a golf non-clubmember can: borrow a set of clubs, play golf all day long on public links, have a good time. Last week the best of the public linksters had even a better time, played in the annual National Public Links championship at Forest Park Golf Club. St. Louis. Railway clerks, postal employes, butlers, competed against bank-runners, shoe salesmen, bellboys. There were some low scores. In the qualifying round, Brooklyn's Henry Fabrizio took a 70, three others...
...Walter P. Chrysler, railroad shop superintendent who borrowed $4,300, bought an automobile and spent a winter taking it apart and putting it together again to see what made it go; John Willys, high pressure salesman, who cashed a personal check for $330 at a hotel to meet the pay roll of the Overland Co. so he would not lose his sales agency, and who almost at once became simultaneously president, treasurer, general manager, sales manager, and advertising manager of the nearly bankrupt company...