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...true that Mr. Sousa originally sold Washington Post to a Philadelphia pub:lisher for $35. Later Carl Fischer purchased that publisher's catalogue including the Sousa music. Thereafter (still during the term of the first copyright period) Carl Fischer made a new agreement with Mr. Sousa in accordance with which Mr. Sousa and his estate were to receive a royalty on every copy sold in every arrangement published...
First indication of the change came soon after the Wall Street Crash, when Pub lisher Patterson walked into the city room and announced: "We're off on the wrong foot. The people's major interest is in how they're going to eat." On March 6, 1933 the News announced: "This newspaper now pledges itself to support the policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt for a period of at least one year." Not only did the News support the New Deal, but it devoted itself wholeheartedly to selling it to the people. Joe Patterson became...
...woman named Maggie, and father of several children, but involved in some way with a girl named Anna. Earwicker has been mixed up in some drunken misdemeanor, his dreams are filled with fears of being caught by the police. He dreams that he is coming out of a pub with his pals; a crowd gathers; one of the revelers sings a song, but it turns into a recital of Earwicker's sins and folly. He dreams that he is called upon to explain the fable of "the Mookse and the Gripes"; as he begins, the Mookse comes swaggering...
...public debt of $50,000,000,000 was in certain prospect for the U. S., and would by no means strain the nation's financial structure. Shocked protests answered Mr. Morgenthau. But realists on Capitol Hill knew that he was only putting it mildly. They knew that the PUB† era is here to stay as long as any member of Franklin Roosevelt's Cabinet can foretell, and they knew that Mr. Morgenthau's speech was only the polite introduction of an act which the Economy-breathing 76th Congress will presently have to perform willy-nilly: raising...
...toast of every London pub last week was a skinny, buck-toothed 22-year-old lad from Pudsey named Leonard Hutton. With a cricket bat Pudsey's boy had tickled sporting Britain into a grin that stretched from Land's End to John o' Groat...