Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's fastest blackamoor, Jesse Owens, with four Olympic crowns in his valise. With very little money in his pocket, Sprinter Owens made no secret of the fact that he was returning to the U. S. to cash in on his athletic reputation for all it was worth. Bug-eyed Radioclown Eddie Cantor, whose recent offer of a college scholarship ended in an unfortunate cribbing fiasco (TIME, April 20), was said to be offering Owens $4,000 a week just to take him on a personal tour. A Manhattan theatre was said to be clamoring for the dusky speedster...
...until later. His West Middlesex speech was, in fact, so fundamental that the Democratic high command did not bother to controvert its generalities. At Chautauqua Governor Landon discussed Education in a broad way, made news principally by breaking with William Randolph Hearst, his No. 1 press supporter on the worth of Teachers' Oaths...
...Government must make sure that it gets a dollar's worth for every dollar it spends...
...thin Candidate Russell harped on the 396,000,000 Federal dollars which have rolled into Georgia, assailed his opponent as a dictator who ruled the State by militia, described him as a pawn of Yankee capitalists plotting to break up the Democratic Party. Russell played for all it was worth the revelation before the Senate lobby investigating committee that John J. Raskob and Pierre S. du Pont had paid $5,000 each to finance Governor Talmadge's convention of anti-Roosevelt "Goober Democrats" at Macon last winter (TIME, April 27). "Sure, I helped raise the taxes," cried...
...Texas Rangers (Paramount) represents Hollywood's most determined effort to date to capitalize that glorious period of a State in the making, of which the amusement possibilities have already been so strikingly demonstrated by Showman Billy Rose and his Fort Worth Nude Ranch...