Word: paying
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Finland, the Russians cracked the Mannerheim Line, took Summa, went for Viipuri, headed into the vulnerable vitals of the little country (see p. 30}. The man who will pay out the money to Finland (if & when), Jesse H. Jones, Federal Loan Administrator, famous poker-player, veiled his ice-cold eyes sleepily, told the House committee: Finland is a good risk...
...sophisticated, well-adjusted metropolitan politico like Republican National Committeeman Kenneth Simpson, who has a Matisse on his wall, Alexander Kerensky for his guest. Thomas Dewey takes his career and campaigning hard, has never been able, like most New Yorkers, to slide easily through the city's life, or pay without questioning the physical and intellectual tribute it demands. He remembers dirty deals, remembers, too, triumph in spite of them. He is hardworking, intent, an excellent administrator, with plenty of nerve, a fine radio voice, a record of action, a pretty wife, two sons, a home in the country...
...Collier is as well known in Memphis as Ed Crump himself. He acquired his pronounced dislike for the Crump machine from his daddy, a white-bearded Confederate veteran who owned valuable property in Memphis and refused to pay taxes to Crump collectors. Tom Collier, who is a lawyer by avocation, devoted years to not paying taxes, finally lost much of his family's rich inheritance after 32 years of litigation and 750 tax suits. Between times he kept in trim by running barefoot in the early morning, accommodated the local photographers with outlandish poses (see cut), regularly...
Miss Claudius could be mean. She was always chasing children out of her littered yard, sometimes caught and beat them. Once she saw a man short-cutting through her yard, made him pay 10? toll. Miss Claudius probably saved the dime. She spent almost no money, had no heat, light, water in her house. For a bathroom she used the Ladies' Room at the Lincoln Savings Bank. At closing time one afternoon, the employes heard strange noises in the Ladies' Room. Miss Claudius was inside, reading aloud from a law book. She knew and could quote...
...Denver Congregationalist minister, Edwin McArthur left a job as runner in a Denver bank to go to Manhattan, where the Juilliard Foundation had given him a scholarship to study the piano. To pay his living expenses he played accompaniments in Manhattan vocal studios. Because he was such a good accompanist, famous singers like Richard Crooks, Merle Alcock, Gladys Swarthout, John Charles Thomas hired him for concerts. Says he: "If I couldn't be a musician and a respectable citizen - by that I mean earn my own living - at the same time, I'd give up music...