Word: paid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louisiana. When such cynical atmosphere sniffers as Columnist Westbrook Pegler noted Weiss tooting a tin trumpet in Philadelphia in June 1936, vowing undying loyalty to Franklin Roosevelt and, incidentally, plumping down 20 solid delegates' votes, they termed this incident "The Second Louisiana Purchase." (In January 1939, Weiss quietly paid the Internal Revenue Bureau $38,746.10 in back taxes and penalties for the years...
...good idea of what is considered high art in the Third Reich today may be deduced from a purchase made by the Führer himself at Munich's Congress two years ago. Reportedly to decorate his bedroom, he paid 15,000 marks for Professor Adolph Ziegler's (President of the Reich Chamber of Graphic & Plastic Arts) full-length, photographic female nude Terpsichore. Prior to the purchase, its voluptuous model had accompanied the Reich Leader through the exhibition. Almost anywhere else in the world Terpsichore would be considered the kind of thing to put on a beer...
...Pitchfork supported Pa Ferguson, and its editor once sued a newspaper for the 5? he had paid for a copy only to find nothing about Ferguson in it. Ten years ago Pitchfork Smith 'walked into a church where Fort Worth's Rev. J. Frank Norris (who had just been acquitted of murder) was preaching, shook his finger in the preacher's face, boomed: "Dr. Norris, you murdered D. E. Chipps." Threatened by the congregation, he shouted: "Come on, I'm not afraid of a mob! I can lick a mob with a switch!" He was charged...
...inch ruler, with which he settled all arguments concerning distance, and a small pair of scissors, with which he trimmed the ends of the cigars he was forever chewing. He could argue any subject to victory or the exhaustion of his opponent. He settled his bills by stamping them PAID and mailing them back to his creditors...
Back cracked rasp-voiced Charlie Hardy, saying that Senor Cintas was a disgruntled, discharged employe dealing in "misstatements and half statements." Back cracked Oscar Cintas with the charge that the Hardy law firm (Hardy, Stancliffe & Hardy) was making a good thing out of Car & Foundry. (The company paid the firm $12,825 in legal fees for the last fiscal year...