Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late great Joseph Pulitzer's will left $50,000 for a statue "at some suitable place on Central Park preferably on 59th Street." By the time his sons placed the statue where he desired they had spent out of pocket $10,000 more than the bequest. For the sake of symmetry the Pulitzers also had to pay for moving Augustus St. Gaudens' heroic General Sherman on horseback, on the other side of 59th Street. When everything was completed in 1915 and water began to flow into a series of Kentucky limestone basins. General Sherman found himself headed straight...
...waking hours in his incredibly ornate office, denied himself to practically all callers except his editors. Past 60, of nervous temperament, he lives nearly half the year at his French estate near Biarritz. On his transatlantic trips he customarily takes a large party of relatives, and for the sake of his diet, a cow. The cow makes the round trip but must be sacrificed in sight of her native land because of Argentina's rigid quarantine against all imported cattle. Don Ezequiel sailed for Biarritz last month, regarding the new plant as perhaps the last important milestone...
...union of NRA workers. Head of that union is one John L. Donovan who worked for NRA's Labor Advisory Board. Two of his superiors, Leo Wolman and Gustav Peck, had filed complaints against him. For appearance's sake, however, General Johnson hesitated to fire the head of his employes' union...
...daring speech indeed. To have praised live Jew Albert Einstein would have been madness, but he did praise dead Jew Heinrich Hertz, discoverer of "Hertzian waves." And bold Max Planck said: "History proves that the greatest and most vital discoveries were made by scientists who worked for the sake of pure science only...
...thin-lipped, high-strung writer named Louis Burgess, who turned out editorials for $75 a week on Hearst's San Francisco Examiner until last spring, when he was elected chairman of the Guild's newly organized Examiner chapter. Three weeks later the Examiner discharged him "for the sake of economy." Louis Burgess complained to the NRA Regional Labor Board which, amid considerable uproar, heard his case last fortnight. Hearst was represented by his brainy lawyer John Francis Neylan and Clarence Lindner, general manager of the Examiner...