Word: pocketbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a carving knife. Guffawing audiences find the skit the funniest in the show, because it seems the truest. Financially, Radio City is a thumping flop. The precise size of the deficit is unknown, but there is no doubt that the thump lands squarely on the Rockefeller pocketbook. Most of the land beneath the enterprise is owned (tax free) by Columbia University and for it Son John pays some $3,000,000 annually. For the buildings he guaranteed $100,000,000 from his own pocket, plus $65,000,000 which he got from Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in return...
...oldest newspaper, the Evening Post, made money. During the lifetime of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis it had a fat bankroll to lean on, but since his death last June the Curtis estate has reputedly refused to subsidize the Post's losses. They have fallen on the pocketbook of Stepson-in-law John Charles Martin who owns 51% of the Post's stock. Two months ago Publisher Martin sent his Man Friday, Harry Baxter Nason Jr., to New York to see what could be done. Last week Mr. Nason assumed temporary editorship of the Post, announced a drastic change...
...give us a break, hey? All right, we'll get you and get you good!' . . ." How put a stop to gangster pressagentry? Editor Bingay proposed an ambitious scheme: "The only way to get at the publisher of a yellow newspaper is to hit him in the pocketbook." Let the police chiefs appoint a committee to meet with other committees of editors, publishers, advertisers, and-to make sure of their ground-a committee of the American Bar Association. Let them draft a code of newspaper conduct in dealing with crime. Then "the yellow press . . . will be revealed for what...
...Rumania. With him aboard the Manhattan were his wife and three children. In Dallas where he lives, practices law and collects rugs there is a story to the effect that every time Mrs. Owsley has a baby, her wealthy father puts $100,000 or more into the Owsley family pocketbook...
When Theodore Roosevelt started "trust-busting," the ordinary citizen could readily visualize a series of industrial evils that finally hit his own pocketbook. Small companies combined into big ones; big ones combined into monopolies; monopolies fixed higher prices; the ordinary citizen paid more for his food. clothes, transportation. On such a clear-cut issue T. R. easily rallied the nation...