Word: publishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote for Town & Country a so-called expose of top-flight society. Last year he let it be known that Daughter Ellen had offered him $25,000 if he would stop writing such things as a proposed book called On the Cuff. He refused the offer, has yet to publish the book. Last August he went into bankruptcy listing among liabilities of $4,907.39 a $1.48 laundry bill. Last January he went out of bankruptcy when creditors failed to press their claims. Last week, while his son-in-law was sporting himself in Bermuda and his daughter celebrated her fourth...
Some laid it to talk of dollar devaluation. Others thought it was foreign buying inspired by better news from Spain. Still others credited it to the beginning of new pump-priming. A few thought shorts were spurred to hasty covering by the Stock Exchange decision to publish precise figures of short interest in each stock. Inventors of explanations had full scope for their talents. For last week something hit the Stock Exchange with an elevating power like that of a volcano erupting beneath it. In the entire previous week only 1,700,000 shares had been traded, smallest full week...
Since public sentiment seems to favor the many whom Actress Bennett has had occasion to score in the recent press, why not publish the Pogany portrait of this "round shouldered, thick-thighed" champion to give them their real money's worth? If the portrait is as foul as she says it is, the Public will be pleased; if it flatters her, the Public will be certain all this court to-do is just another cheap stunt to get cheaper publicity for her next movie, which is certain to be a flop. One of the Public...
Ford Motor Co. mails dividend checks to only three stockholders-Henry Ford, his son Edsel and Edsel's wife, Eleanor. Because it has no other stockholders to coddle, the company does not publish an income statement and the public cannot know exactly what Ford's earnings are. Only clue to the firm's profits & losses is the balance sheet it is required to file each year in Massachusetts. Last week the report for 1937 was filed and the public's annual guessing game got under way. Majority guess: Although Ford produced 1,314,369 cars & trucks...
...colleague, Frederick Van Nuys, he has now joined the rest of the Indiana Democratic machine in quietly cutting Senator Van Nuys' political throat. Last month Senator Minton introduced a bill making it a felony punishable by two years in jail and $1,000 to $10,000 fine to publish a "known untruth." The convicted magazine or newspaper would be suspended from the mails for six months. After vigorous editorial condemnation of his bill, Mr. Minton revealed he had no notion of pressing for its passage. He just wanted to attract attention to his criticisms of the press...