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...only once in the history of the English-speaking theatre has one man been a partner in two firms that have both become household names. In the 1920s, the best-known playwrighting partnership in the U. S. was that of Kaufman & Connelly. In the 1930s it has been that of Kaufman & Hart...
...demise of the Journal was a death blow. For years it had fought their fight, played down their financial alley. Foe of the late Governor Floyd B. Olson and his Farmer-Labor Party, it was stanch Republican, anti New Deal. Rich with local department store advertising in the lush 1920s, it began to sicken when Depression I set in. Handsome, silver-haired Publisher Carl Jones (an amateur card-trick expert) shuffled his journalistic cards to no avail. To the Star went his acrid Managing Editor George H. Adams (later to return to his old job on the Journal...
Five billions is nearly 2,300 millions more than the average amount the Government collected through the roaring late 1920s, but still it came nowhere near paying the Government's bills. Even in the era of the Permanently Unbalanced Budget, the bloated poverty of fiscal 1939 was something to remember. The red-ink-stained picture drawn by Secretary Henry ("Henny-penny") Morgenthau Jr. showed...
...himself a church wedding, and civil weddings were practically unheard of. Besides, it was common knowledge, until at least 1920, that Benito and Rachele had never bothered to go through a marriage ceremony. A romantic story has it that Edda's trips to London, made in the late 1920s ostensibly for pleasure, were to see her real mother, who, it is said, died of tuberculosis about 1930. With this story is linked the conclusion that Edda's tendency toward weak lungs, which have not appeared in the Mussolini boys, was inherited from her mother...
...late 1920s Founder Arthur J. Morris of the Morris Plan banks and four other members of a syndicate bought 14,550 shares of Industrial Finance Corp. stock from the late Pennsylvania Coalman John Markle. The price was $95 a share. It happened that Industrial Finance Corp., parent of Morris Plan banks, was under obligation to repurchase that stock at $105. Eventually the syndicate including Arthur Morris and four other directors of Industrial, sold the shares to the corporation, at a profit...