Word: solely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among 102,500 radio listeners who sent contributions of 50? to $5, some made touching sacrifices. One family gave up its Sunday roast to send $1.71. From an old ladies' home came $1.75. One dollar bill came from a man & wife, sole inhabitants of an island ten miles off the New Hampshire coast. Many sent letters telling how they had raised their contributions. Sample...
Rosselli was arrested, held in $200 bail. But quicker than Rosselli could sole a shoe came a chiding wire to Wisconsin officials from Census Director William Lane Austin: "You have disregarded instructions that before taking legal action such cases must be submitted to Washington office for disposition." Charges against Cobbler Rosselli were dropped...
When last fall the Daily published two editions simultaneously for a fortnight, one standard size, one tabloid, Editor Roberts was almost the sole member of his staff who liked the tabloid. Groaned diehard foes of tabloid journalism: "To hell with the doily-we want our Daily back!" But Minnesota's students voted 4,231 to 2,941 to have a tabloid...
Birthdays. Daniel Harris (his pension checks always read "alias George Irving," under which name he enlisted), sole surviving Jewish veteran of the G. A. R., 94; Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, Labrador medical missionary, 75; Frederic William Goudy, dean of U. S. type designers, 75; Pope Pius XII, on the first anniversary of his election to the papacy, 64; Associate Justice Hugo La Fayette Black of the Supreme Court...
...colored riff tune, had turned the rights over to Lewis Music Company. At this point, Glenn Miller, the biggest thing in bandom at the present time, decided that the arrangement would fit his heavy and intricate style, and persuaded Lewis Music Company (for certain pecuniary considerations) to give him sole broadcasting rights. He rearranged it, slowing it down, and made it a fifteen minute show-piece for his eight-man brass section--muted. Then every night for several weeks, he played it from the Cafe Rouge at the Pennsylvania in New York. Result was tremendous national popularity--so much...