Word: handouts
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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Casually, almost with nonchalance, an under executive of the General Motors Corp. passed out to newspaper men assembled on the 22nd floor of the offices at 57th St. & Broadway, Manhattan, last week, a typwritten sheet "known in newspaper patois as a "handout," a "canned" statement (opprobrious terms suggesting little or no news value...
Premier Raymond Poincaré cabled Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon that France would like to pay the U. S. $10,000,000 on its War debt account. Mr. Mellon cabled back that the U. S. would be pleased to accept the handout. The payment will be made on June 15, without prejudice to the ratification of the Berenger-Mellon debt-funding agreement which neither the French Parliament nor the U. S. Senate has yet approved...
...that, if a man was going to be a faker, he must be a magnificent one. He kept his desk drawer full of paper money in small denominations. Any panhandler, honest "broke" or sleasy rumdum who got in? to see him?and any- one could?was sure of a handout. "Take it," Tammen would chuckle. "It's good money, all right. I made it." And no one is sure yet how H. H. Tammen, facile vender of scenic art views at the World's Fair, did make those particular pieces of money...