Word: drops
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week Banker Gibson cast up his accounts. Despite a 21% drop in attendance under 1939, the Fair had $651,184 in cash, no current overdue debts. Debenture holders, their $28,000,000 already reduced to $24,000,000, were promised another $1,200,000 next month. And their guarantee of 40% of the gate was restored...
Spanish Prince Ludovico Pignatelli filed an application in Manhattan Supreme Court asking that Italian Prince Guido Pignatelli and his precariously married* wife, Henrietta Hartford, $200,000,000 A. & P. store heiress, be ordered to drop the titles from their names. Complained Ludovico: "Guido has assumed the designation [Prince Pignatelli] so he might pirate the reputation and prominence of the petitioner. ... By reason thereof he . . . found the doors of New York's best society, which ordinarily would have been barred to him, suddenly open...
...American people are in all probability far in advance of their political leaders ... in a realization that we now face one of the most stupendous tasks which we have ever undertaken as a nation. The measures already enacted . . . are a drop in the well, and it is doubtful if any man can now foresee the extent to which they will have to be supplemented and implemented...
...making $18 a week. He follows those instructions almost to the letter, describes his technique as being of the "Aw-nuts rather than the Gee-whiz school of sportswriting." In an excited baritone, he calls a bum a bum, takes frequent pot shots at athletic bigwigs, squeezes the last drop of melodrama out of horse racing, ball games, fights, wrestling bouts. His only concessions to the carriage trade are seasonal references to tennis, polo and college track meets. Enormously popular with sports addicts, he has been a big help in boosting the sale of Phillies, claimed to be over half...
...French Army's agony over. To Marshal Pétain's plea, sent to Hitler through their mutual friend, Dictator Franco of Spain whom Pétain had once taught the art of war, Adolf Hitler's reply was: drop your arms or be killed. He sent for Benito Mussolini to meet him in Munich to discuss matters on June 18 (125th anniversary of Napoleon's downfall at Waterloo). Surrender, not with honor but unconditional, was reported to be the German's ultimatum to France. Meantime, the war "for which France asked" would continue...