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...those who like their Shakespeare, as Mr. Benchley would say, the repertoire offered by Fritz Leiber has been a gift from heaven. Not only has the Bard been presented with more or less respect to the text but the prices have been on a scale proportionate to the student pocketbook. Seats in the orchestra are for once not entirely prohibitive...
...Jersey. Presumably the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association is making, or plans to make, similar campaigns in other states, and then burst a mass of statistics upon the country. Are professional agitators and faked figures to invade even the academic world for the benefit of Wayne B. Wheeler's pocketbook or the purses of his gang...
...Motors stabilize industry," a saying goes. General Motors, largest corporation in the largest industry at the end of its largest year, found itself in an excellent position to bear out that saying. Its own stability was implied by its possession of a car for every pocketbook-Cadillac, Buick, Oakland, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Chevrolet; of specialties and accessories- Yellow Cab and Coach, G. M. C. Truck, Delco Light, Fisher Body, Jackson Wheel, A. C. Spark Plug, Harrison Radiator; and of the huge sideline, Frigidaire, which ranked only after Buick and Chevrolet as an earner this year...
...Alan's reception was no whit cooler, for all that. Encouraged by Publisher Lester D. Gardner of Aviation (weekly), he had come to the U. S. for a lecture tour in behalf of his passion and, of course, his pocketbook. His passion is commercial and civil aviation-flying for everybody-and in its service he has flown the length of Africa, the breadth of the seas between Britain and Australia (TIME, Oct. 11), without any preparation beforehand beyond ascertaining where he could pick up fuel. Interviewed, he spoke with scorn of parachutes: "Great heavens! If flying is so dangerous...
...introductory speaker, Mr. G. W. Britt, Chief Special Deputy of the Department of Revenue, explained the Collidge rebate proposal, or the Melion-Cooliege plan, as he preferred it should be called, at some length. He declared that the issue was one of great moment since it affected the pocketbook of every taxpayer. His only objection to a rebate was the fact that it was necessarily slow and full of red tape. However, he admitted that there was a surplus of $300,000,000 in the Treasury and that Secretary A. W. Mellon could handle the relate to Mr. Mellon...