Word: earning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hutchins, now president of the University of Chicago, once called Bill Douglas the "outstanding professor of law of the nation." Douglas wrote a textbook and taught three courses to earn his way through Columbia Law School, was graduated No. 2 in his class. For two years with the high-powered Manhattan firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood he threaded the jungles of corporate law and finance. He went back to teach at Columbia, was called to Yale where he became Sterling Professor, declined an even finer chair at Chicago, went to SEC in 1934 on Joe Kennedy...
German emperors who enlarged the realm. What he has said and what he has done to earn that title make interesting comparative reading...
...Statisticians estimate that the average man now in college will be lucky to earn as much as $3,000 five years after graduation...
...frothy mouthed, full text of Mein Kampf has now become a historical curiosity as well as a psychopathic marvel, and last week, on the same day, two Manhattan publishing firms brought out the first unexpurgated U. S. translations of the Nazi Good Book. One firm (Reynal & Hitchcock) will presumably earn royalties for the Führer, the other (Stackpole), being printed in defiance of the Hitler copyright, will not. Excess profits from both will go to German refugee organizations...
Hearst has one close-knit group of generally profitable newspapers: the six on the Pacific Coast. The Los Angeles Herald & Express makes $1,000,000 a year, the Examiner $500.000. The San Francisco Examiner is another $1,000,000 paper. The Call-Bulletin and Oakland's Post-Enquirer earn far less, but stand to get a boost from the fair this year. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, once the weak sister of the Coast, has been pulling out of the red under Roosevelt Son-in-Law John Boettiger, will make enough in 1939 to offset 1938's losses. These...