Word: pocketbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gustie's--those in the know rave about Mr. Gustie's food. The service is good and the prices fit the pocketbook...
Copley Plaza--Silk hat, white tie, and tails are symbolic of the best to be had. If your pocketbook is bulging, try the Sheraton Room...
...offices in Los Angeles' busy Petroleum Securities Building where he rubbed elbows with bankers, brokers and cinemagnates, Archbishop Cantwell used to try to persuade the latter to keep salaciousness out of their films, finally decided that the only way to move them was "to hit them in the pocketbook. Talking morality to them does no good." At a convention of Catholic bishops in Washington he proposed the Legion of Decency to boycott indecent movies. The Legion was formed, with Cincinnati's Archbishop McNicholas (see p. 33) at its head, and Bishop Cantwell became well hated by the motion...
...pictures and displays, the Republican National Committee lately set out to rouse the nation's ire against taxes, make President Roosevelt the butt of that resentment (TIME, Sept. 14). One of its brightest ideas about dramatizing "the Roosevelt New Deal Party's taxation raids on the family pocketbook'' involves the use of blackboards and butchers. The National Committee's blackboards, promised but not yet generally in use, have space for three columns of figures. The butcher chalks up his prices as follows...
...think programs may be spoiled by summer static; others believe listeners are cool when the weather is warm. By last week, however, practically every solvent producer of consumer goods in the U. S., cheered by signs of recovery (see col. i), had laid his plans to tap the national pocketbook by tickling the national ear with the mightiest and most expensive free show since radio began...