Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...single breath of sincerity in them, with but one thought in mind and that material gain, either in the medium of cash or power through votes, are the tricks of the trade to these groups. The breath of their life is to support dollar patriots and to receive in return the support of the unthinking masses who see in the yellow press and who hear over the air the demagoguery and hypocrisy which has for the past twenty years brought the money rolling in. What few remember is that this money also keeps in power the small group of high...
...return there was a kiss for Mrs. Astor, a kiss for Mrs. Belmont, a kiss for Assistant Manager Edward Ziegler, two kisses for Edward Johnson. For the audience there was a tearful little speech. Said she: "It is hard to leave you. I will miss you. Let this not be goodby. I am supremely happy, supremely grateful and supremely satisfied. Let me say au revoir...
...Guggenheimer is not formally required to do anything for his money. Guggenheim money, however, has helped many a first-rate artist produce many a first-rate work. Stephen Vincent Benet wrote John Brown's Body on a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927. Louis Adamic wrote Native's Return on another in 1932. Criticized for giving assistance to big names, the Foundation has concentrated lately on little ones, although few Fellowships have gone to people without a respectable body of work behind them. This year's literary crop is notable for its youth (average age: 35) and radicalism...
...friends dipped into their own pockets for $100,000, formed a private corporation with this cash as capital. Their corporation then borrowed $2,400,000 from none other than Southwestern Life, selling long-term bonds to the insurance company. With Southwestern having thus provided almost all the money to return control of itself to Texas, Lawyer Hamilton proceeded to the relatively simple task of buying stock...
...tendency for costs to rise faster than sales, so that many a company was reporting smaller profits on greater volume of business. It was merely a matter of time before increasing sales would outstrip increasing expenses, thereby cutting the cost of each unit they produced. Last week the return of profitable prosperity was conspicuously evident in at least three industries...