Word: upkeep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lodge. Warned by friends that such devotion was a mistake, Mary Pickford exclaimed: "We figure that our lives are too short as it is." In 1930 Fairbanks, fond of traveling, went globe trotting alone. Last week he wired her from London that she would have to pay for the upkeep of ''Pickfair," their Beverly Hills home. To the Press, she wept, confirmed the separation, hinted at divorce. Divorced. John Borden, 49, oil tycoon, "Millionaire Explorer"; by Courtney Letts Stillwell Borden. 34; Chicago socialite once previously married; in Reno. Died. Roscoe Conkling ("Fatty") Arbuckle, 46, globular oldtime cinemactor...
There is justification for this argument. In face of such a possible deficit, there is need for much drastic economy: some cuts can certainly be made and have already been made, in intercollegiate sports, in the roster of Harvard's sixty-two coaches, in upkeep of buildings, in guarantees, and in trips. But a retrenchment of some $250,000 or more can not be made in a half year along such lines without crippling, perhaps destroying the University's expressed policy of "Athletics...
...Comptroller and the Corporation met last summer to consider means of reducing the large deficits from various departments, of which that of the library is the largest, being over three times as great as next non-self-sustaining item, the upkeep and care of grounds. It was found that an economy of ten percent could be made in all departments without cutting either wages or salaries. In the Library this could be effected only by maintaining shorter hours, with a saving of $20,000 in the cost of lighting, heating, and the graduate student desk attendants. It was clear that...
Said Mrs. Juliette Leiter, relict of Tycoon Joseph Leiter, when questioned in an income tax recovery suit about expenses charged to upkeep of her Washington mansion: "Why, the expenses for that es- tablishment are enormous. I would say about $6,000 a month...
...Bronx Terminal Market. He found in this huge municipal building two grocers and two vegetable dealers paying a total rent of $26,000 per year. Not more than ten city employes were visibly at work. Back at City Hall he learned that the market's payroll and upkeep alone was costing the city $162,480 per year. Summoning his Commissioner of Markets, he told him that unless he remedied this "shocking condition," in two days, he would be ignominiously "fired." Two days later Tammany-backed William F. Dwyer was ousted, first to fall under Mayor McKee...