Word: fee
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pockets, knocked about as a peddler of pins & notions, a trolley conductor, a factory worker. Fond of music, he organized the Van Hugo Musical Society (he invented the name, which he thought imposing), and arranged concerts for labor organizations. His first real artist was Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, whose fee he beat down to $500. S. Hurok hired the New York Hippodrome for popular-priced concerts, a new thing then. To swell the advance sales on Belgian Violinist Eugene Ysaÿe, Hurok advertised in the Sunday Telegram: - Actress Marta Eggert...
...Cleveland Wrecking, it was another in a series of thousands of jobs of erasing oldfashioned, tax-eating structures to make room for new buildings, parking lots, Government housing projects. Like many another well-built oldtimer, the West Hotel promised fat profits in salvage as well as a decent fee (reputedly $20,000) for demolition...
Dean Chase, commenting on the experiment, announced that no charge would be made for the privilege of evening slabs, although the petitioners had offered to pay for the extra time. The administrative officers feel, he stated, that it would not be fair to the students to charge a fee...
...same time "Der Zerbrochener Krug" was announced by the Turmwacchter as the next German film to be shown at the University Theatre, on April 18. One of the four classical comedies of German literature, this involve will star Email Jannings. The admission fee of 25 cents entities say member of the University to see the main feature, "Rafflies," as well...
...full-fledged commercial daily, competing with the News in the afternoon, the Times on Sunday. Immediately T.E.P. took most of its advertising out of the News, gave it to the Free Press. A Congressional committee, investigating TVA, later asserted that: 1) T.E.P. lawyer took a $10,000 "fee" from the power company, invested it in the Free Press; 2) T.E.P. paid higher rates for advertising in the Free Press than it had paid the News; 3) the power company granted discounts to the Free Press and the McDonald stores, even after the bills were long overdue...