Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking of the plan, President Conant said in part at this time, January: "The belief which underlies the entire project is that there will always be a few young men of exceptional promise, but without adequate means of paying for a university education, to whom it is well worth society's while to furnish every opportunity. We are convinced after an examination of the records of the winners of Harvard College Prize Fellowships in the Middle West during the past three years that boys of outstanding character and ability can be selected from among secondary school graduates for such awards...
...price was $57,000, $12,500 of which had been placed in escrow, the rest payable when the F.C.C. makes its decision; that KFJZ was being bought by his wife, but that under Texas law husband and wife share jointly in estate and income; that Ruth Googins Roosevelt is worth $99,500; that he has an income "in excess of $20,000"; that his wife planned to spend $60,000 making KFJZ one of the finest small stations in the U. S. in the next three years. Asked after the hearing how he thought he would fare, Radioman Roosevelt avowed...
...make much money from them. KABC, for example, is housed in an unimpressive seven-room suite, plays many phonograph records, has only one specialty-night baseball broadcasting. It has made a little money. As for KFJZ, Elliott last week told the F.C.C. that his wife knows everyone in Fort Worth and that the station's business is already increasing in anticipation of her ownership...
More interesting to Texans last week was the question of whether Hearst, is involved in the deals. Elliott Roosevelt is continuing in his berth at Hearst Radio, Inc., and local radiomen in Fort Worth and San Antonio last week freely declared they thought he was merely acting as a front for William Randolph Hearst. According to Elliott's friends, however, the move represents an attempt to free himself from the exploitation of his name which has attended his other business ventures. Asked to clarify the matter last week, Radioman Roosevelt stiffly announced: "The Frontier Broadcasting Co. is being wholly...
Last July when Missouri's new Governor Lloyd Crow Stark was enjoying a vacation in Alaska his State Board of Fund Commissioners sold $3,000,000 worth of State building bonds to Baum, Bernheimer Co., a Kansas City bond house, at an "emergency" private sale. St. Louis bond dealers, who had not been given a chance to bid, charged that the State lost $50,000 on the premium of $100,000 paid by Baum, Bernheimer. St. Louis' Post-Dispatch made the most of it, pointed out that the same sort of thing had happened twice in the previous...