Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more or less quietly employed as vice-president of Hearst Radio, Inc. in charge of its four southwest stations in Texas and Oklahoma. In addition he is president of Hearst-owned KTSA Broadcasting Co. in San Antonio. Reputedly drawing down $10,000 a year, he has lived in Fort Worth, home town of his present wife, the onetime Ruth Googins. Last June, as quietly as possible, Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt contracted in her own name to buy the dinky loo-watt Station KFJZ at Fort Worth. Last month, Elliott himself drove unheralded to San Antonio, sipped a highball, autographed...
...shaping his $220,000,000 kingdom, William Randolph Hearst did not go after the investing public's unsuspecting dollars in an ambitious way until 1930. Then he high-pressured $50,000,000 worth of preferred stock on the public during Depression...
Last spring, needing cash and thinking the public had it for him, Hearst filed registrations with the Securities & Exchange Commission for $35,500,000 worth of bonds -two issues on two combinations of Hearst magazines and newspaper properties...
Baltic Deputy (Lenfilm). A universally noble cinema theme, of which the most prominent U. S. exponent is Paul Muni (Zola, Pasteur), is the life story of the great-hearted man of science. To be worth his epitaph in Russia, however, a scientist must also hew to the Marxian line. Such a one was Professor Arcady Klimentievich Timiriazev, sometime lecturer at Oxford and Cambridge, and professor of plant physiology at the Moscow State University. The explosion of the Russian Revolution, when he was 75, brought down his grey hairs not in sorrow but in grandeur to the grave, gave Soviet cinema...
Toronto, with 327 cases of polio thus far last week became the first community on the continent to test the worth of the Peet-Schultz prophylactic nasal spray (TIME Sept. 6 et ante), by applying it to a significant number of children. Led by the Hospital for Sick Children, all the city's hospitals opened clinics for application of the spray. Soon as newspapers announced the fact, 5,000 parents brought children to get the treatment...