Word: showings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Your circulation department sends me a letter showing why we should patronize your magazine. I formerly thought your magazine was a rather dependable institution and read it every week. Lately, however, your magazine undertook to publish a statement of the impeachment effort made against me in this state (TIME, April 8). It is almost unbelievable that you would have been guilty of propagating the fraudulent misrepresentations of fact, and refusing to mention the abandonment of such various and sundry accusations even by those making them. For instance, you published to the world my picture, as though I had undertaken...
Without naming names, Mr. McCarl cited instances to show how great were the sacrifices, how shocking the business management, in some of the corporation's white elephant sales in 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925. For example...
...both in an alcoholic stupor. A second slinks dangerously in and out until murdered by a third. The wife nobly assumes the guilt, is exonerated under the unwritten law, and leaves her husband with the sobbing little murderess. Conceived by a vaudeville actress, Winnie Baldwin, this pastiche of variety show emotions and humors succeeds in being very elaborate balderdash...
Tuition and fees paid by students showed a marked increase over the amount of the preceding year, it is announced. Figures show that for every dollar paid by the student for his education almost two dollars is furnished by the University from the income of gifts to endowment which have been made during the years to enable the University to furnish its facilities at a minimum cost to the student body...
Figures covering the Yale Alumni Fund show that about 8,000 graduates contributed during the year ending June 30, 1929, and that since the establishment of the fund in 1890 it has given over four and a half millions to the University for current needs, at the same time building up a permanent endowment almost equal...