Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that U. S. humor, at least, has something crazy in it has been proved every week for years by the famed New Yorker. Two of that smartchart's mainstays have been James Thurber and Wolcott Gibbs. Without buying up back files readers last week could get a slice of Gibbs and Thurber humor in concentrated form...
Adman and Author Bruce Barton entered unopposed the Republican primaries for a by-election for Congress in New York's silk-stocking 17th District. Said he: "The 17th pays a tremendous slice of the nation's tax bill. . . . Any nickel-in-the-slot district in the South or West gets more consideration in Washington. This is wrong...
During the hearings Mr. Hammond protested that he could not stand such a slice because he had to pay some $2,400 in Federal and State income taxes; $9,133 a year for a co-operative apartment; and $12,000 a year for household expenses ("for servants, laundry, meats, groceries, drugs, electricity, gas, doctor's bills, valet service, and wearing apparel for himself and his wife, and for entertainment...
...first place. Fifty or so men lopped off each incoming class would, spread over three classes, mean one hundred fifty less for the Houses. But thus ruthlessly to reduce the number of chances for men to enjoy a Harvard education, and at the same time to take a sizable slice out of the University income, cannot be regarded as away...
...months via Western Union 50,000 copies to 50,000 people with annual incomes of $7,500 or more. After the three months are up, Publisher Logan will try another 50,000, then another. Not only does he expect that advertisers will look with favor on this hand-picked slice of kid glove circulation, but he thinks that he will pick up some 5,000 permanent readers from each free list. His goal: 250,000 readers. "The present so-called 'class' magazines with small circulations are licked," says...