Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...government." On behalf of the lowest governmental level, Budgeteer Meyers complained that city Relief bills are uncertain because WPA does not distinguish consistently between employables and unemployables. For Depression II he suggested a long-range program "by all levels of government, business, labor and industry." Main proposal: higher share to cities on State taxes on liquor, gasoline, automobiles, income, sales, inheritances. (The New Deal's long-range program for U. S. public finance is supposed to favor such tax-sharing with the Federal Government in return for Federal taxation of income from future State and local securities...
Three weeks ago, when Douglas Gorce Corrigan landed his nine-year-old plane in Dublin and cracked a joke about having started out for Los Angeles, the U. S. press crowed with delight. Still crowing last week, they did more than their share in the celebrations that marked the hero's return. Star reporters wrote front-page stories in fake Irish dialect. As a million people watched him go up Broadway, Corrigan's modest self-assurance set Manhattan's press crowing louder than ever. Said F. Raymond Daniell of the Times: "A hero with his tongue...
...another effort along similar lines when Agent Myron Selznick, who makes about $1,000,000 a year, announced that he would use some of it to help Director Ernst Lubitsch launch a company to be known as Ernst Lubitsch Productions, Inc. From it Director Lubitsch would draw a share of profits instead of a salary. Last week the Selznick system of cinematic share cropping showed signs of becoming a definite trend. Agent Selznick announced that Carole Lombard and William Powell had agreed to act in pictures on the same sort of terms. Producer Sam Goldwyn followed suit with a statement...
Should they discover that Mr. Spencer got nothing for his share-which he claims to be the case-the liquidators indicated they might oppose its transfer. Meanwhile, Father Divine found his town house problems settled when some of his followers bought him (for $24,000) a brace of connecting houses on Harlem's outskirts. Thrown into one, they contain 50 rooms, a private telephone system, rubber-tiled flooring, modernistic plumbing. A neighbor: "It will be nice to be so near heaven...
Poetic license and a readiness to believe miracles did the rest. ("When you object, in the scientific twentieth century, to the magic of the fifth, it is no use expecting me to share your incredulity.") Readers are likely to prefer Gogarty's pilgrimage when he loses track...