Word: paying
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...baritone, came the voice of an announcer urging listeners to tell their friends to tune in. More music. Then the announcer, in almost a fall-of-Warsaw manner: "I am instructed to say: Father Coughlin will not address you today." Again music, followed by: "I am instructed to say: Pay no heed to idle rumors which will be circulated this week. . . . Probable events transpiring this week will enlighten you." Finally: "Ladies and gentlemen! Do not be alarmed. We confidently expect that Father Coughlin will return to the microphone next Sunday. By all means do your share to have his largest...
...glittering night last week. Manhattan's theatregoers offered to pay up to $50 a seat to get into the venerable Belasco Theatre. They went to sit through something Chicago had been howling over for 33 weeks: John Barrymore, the Waning Profile, making a travesty of a play that travestied his own career. In a sense they were disappointed. My Dear Children was definitely not up to the low standard it attained in Chicago (TIME...
...domestic telegraph business, and a cable and radio system to Europe and Latin America. In 1928, Clarence Mackay decided that music was a more interesting medium of communication, sold the system to International Telephone & Telegraph. By June 1935, I. T. & T. was fed up with advancing Postal cash to pay the $2,500,000-a-year interest on its bonds, let it slip into 77-B. Largest independent bondholder: Lehman Bros, (and clients), whose Bondholders Committee finally represented some $30,000,000 (about 60%) of the bonds...
Typical of these stubborn independents is the Moore Telephone System of Caro, Mich. (pop. 2,554). Its 1,500 subscribers, scattered through three farming counties of the sparse Thumb District, pay $2.50 a month for a twelve-party country line, $3.75 monthly for unlimited service in town. For a $5 fee the company will call all of its subscribers, give them any merchant's sales talk. Its 15 "centrals" are pals with their customers, keep them in touch with local gossip. Subscribers grouse at the service and complain that the *Of the rest, 79% are Bell, some 3% mutual...
...none of our folks ever been buried without a few words." There is the note Tom Joad writes to bury with the body: "This here is William James Joad, dyed of a stroke, old, old man. His fokes buried him becaws they got no money to pay for funerls. Nobody kilt him. Jus a stroke an he dyed." John Ford's touch is everywhere. It is in Tom Joad's laboriously adding an s to funerl in the burial note. It is in the marvelous pantomime as Ma Joad burns her box of letters and keepsakes before starting...