Word: shared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition will consist of work on the fields with the Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Freshman teams as well as some work in the locker rooms of these teams. The assignments of the competitors are so rotated from day to day that each gets an equal share of the work with each team...
...like a patriarch for a quarter-century, passing out countless Christmas turkeys and good jobs at his Monongahela Democratic Club, he has been a potent voice in Tammany's inner councils, was shrewd enough to make with Franklin Roosevelt an early peace which assured his district a healthy share of New Deal patronage in years that have been lean for most Tammany bigwigs...
...only 540-to-1, numbers is highly profitable to its bankers and collectors. When Dutch Schultz turned his energies from beer-running to numbers, he organized it along military lines with bet collectors at the bottom, controllers who tabulated their slips, bankers who hired the controllers and paid a share of their take to Dutch Schultz. In the early 1930's, numbers grossed some $60,000 a day, $20,000,000 a year. To make it more profitable, Schultz used not Federal Reserve figures but combinations of pari-mutuel race-track odds, which the racket had ways of rigging...
...taken to Manhattan in 1936 by Ralph Perez, successively a Calypso specialist for Columbia and Decca. The Lion, however, proved the most censorable of the Calypsonians, all of whose records Mr. Perez must submit to British officials before they may be sold in Trinidad. The Lion's share of the 1937 carnival was his song Netty-Netty, voted the most popular by the public, but banned on the island. On sale in the U. S., its words are allegedly unprintable, and at all but a few points effectively inaudible, or in Caribbean patois. But verbal understanding is not necessary...
Author Zugsmith's characters talk their share of balderdash. They pause in two dullish chapters to discuss martyrdom of left-wing professors and preachers. Nevertheless, their talk has the ring of an uncracked Liberty bell, rich with authentic undertones, strident with neurotic overtones. If Leane Zugsmith s novels have not been monuments, they have been milestones along the U. S. road. This novel, her sixth, indicates that she is still headed in the proper direction, uphill, going places...