Word: secondly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven years she was saved from destitution by a $50-a-month gift from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (of which she was never a member). ASCAP also paid her hospital and funeral expenses; its president, Gene Buck, sent the largest floral piece to her funeral. Second largest was from the Hoboes of America. Its inscription: "To Our Beloved Friend...
...flaw in Lawyer Satterlee's case seems to be his statement that 'Pierpont . . . did not lend any money on [a] second shipment of carbines.' Lewis Corey, in The House of Morgan (1930) quotes the Reports of the House of Representatives to show that Morgan filed a bill with the Government for 58,175 for a second batch of carbines, a claim on which an investigating committee later allowed him $11,008." Mr. Corey misled your reviewer. Morgan never filed any bill with anyone, or made any claim against the Government. No committee, commission or court ever said...
There is no significance to Mr. Satterlee's stress on two shipments and to his statement that Morgan "did not lend any money on [a] second shipment of carbines" (I make no statement to the contrary in my book). For the two shipments involved one transaction -Morgan paid for the whole 5,000 carbines, while the claim on the Government was not for payment on the second shipment but for balance due on the whole 5,000 carbines [when all had been delivered]. Ketchum testified that Morgan "refused to allow the others to go until he received the money...
...Received the following Third Termites: Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey (who also paid no attention to John Lewis) ; Norman Littell (Assistant Attorney General) and Marshall Dimock (Second Assistant Secretary of Labor), whom John Lewis denounced last year for conniving to put the President up again...
Hollywood's Gone With the Wind arrived in Washington last week. For the second night's performance a mysterious, big-hearted donor bought out the Palace Theatre, resold the 2,357 seats at $3 to $10 each and turned over the $13,000 net profit to Herbert Hoover's Finnish relief fund...