Word: returning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Still another guest was High Commissioner Frank Murphy coming to say "Hail" in token of his return from the Philippines, "Farewell" before departing for Philadelphia, in the interval to taste some White House food and while away a couple of hours planning a U. S.-Philippine conference to try to save the Philippines from the economic pains of independence...
...last spring. On it, already farming 400 acres of cotton, are 24 "cropper"' families. Free to organize if they choose, they will receive "model contracts" for "furnish" at 5% interest per annum, will draw up their own self-government regulations, child labor laws. First half of the net return on the crop will go toward retiring the capital investment. The other half will be apportioned to the workers on the quality and quantity of their labor. Ardently Founder Eddy sums up his venture: ". . . The whole movement is a nonviolent, Christian, co-operative endeavor to provide a more abundant life...
...service award for a variety of effective campaigns, did New York City take Publisher Howard at his word. Manhattan publishers are notoriously close-mouthed about the balance sheets of their papers. Best opinion is that all New York newspapers cost way too much to run, none pays a respectable return on the money invested in it. If the World-Tele-gram, on which a $1,350,000 exploitation fund was lavished in its first eight months, has yet had any profits to share with the Brothers Pulitzer, the news has not been made public. Its circulation, never far over...
...Morris Watson organized and headed in the AP's New York office a unit of the American Newspaper Guild, newshawks' union which last month voted to join the American Federation of Labor (TIME, June 8). In 1934 the AP employes were granted a five-day week in return for suspending further efforts at collective bargaining. Last October the five-day AP week was suddenly rescinded. The AP Guildmen thereupon asked their National Executive Board to intercede with AP's General Manager Kent Cooper. Day after the Guild's protesting letter reached Mr. Cooper's desk...
Late in life Harriette wrote her Memoirs as part of a blackmailing scheme. Describing her former companions in long and lurid detail, she thoughtfully gave each the opportunity to be omitted from the volumes, or to be described in a very good light, in return for a cash payment. Harriette, even when her professional career was in full flower, had wanted to be a writer. But the highbrow novels and plays she turned out were affected, pompous, unreadable. When she slapped out the 250,000 words of her Memoirs for a despicable purpose, writing about the life she knew best...