All yours for the asking price of $2,995,000 ... no lie.
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If so, tiny Reduction, a one-time company town built to house workers at a long-vanished garbage-processing plant in western Pennsylvania, could be yours for the asking.
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Yours for the Asking is a 1936 film starring George Raft as a casino owner and Dolores Costello as the socialite he hires as hostess. The movie also features Ida Lupino and was directed by Alexander Hall.Yours for the Asking Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 3, Iss.
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The film was known as The Duchess. Paramount announced it in October 1935 with Raft attached from the beginning. He was to make it after It Had to Happen which he did at Fox. The title was changed to Yours for the Asking in April 1936.
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Los comuneros was written in 1974 and used the reign of Carlos I to act as a historical allegory to criticize the Francoist government. Yours for the Asking () was a critique of a consumerist society that manipulated women. Her works would continue into the post-Franco period and well into the 1990s.
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He starred in a brutal and fast-paced adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key (1935; remade in 1942 with Alan Ladd). He tried a comedy Every Night at Eight (1935) and was borrowed by Columbia Pictures to appear in She Couldn't Take It (1935), a comedy in the vein of It Happened One Night (1934). Raft then was borrowed by 20th Century Fox for It Had to Happen (1936). Back at Paramount he was in Yours for the Asking (1936).
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Colorized lobby card showing Roquemore (left) in Bank Alarm (1937) Henry Roquemore (March 13, 1886 - June 30, 1943) was an American character actor who primarily played bit parts. He appeared in 229 silent and sound films from 1927 until 1943. Many of his roles were uncredited parts in Western movies, but he also appeared in major films including Meet John Doe, The Little Foxes, The Magnificent Ambersons, and the Marx Brothers film Yours for the Asking. He was sometimes credited as Henry Rocquemore.
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Levy has authored four books: Nearing the Crossroads: Contending Approaches to American Foreign Policy (1975, Free Press of MacMillan), Give and Take: A Candid Account of Corporate Philanthropy (1999, Harvard Business School Press), Yours for the Asking: An Indispensable Guide To Fundraising and Management (2008, John Wiley and Sons), and They Told Me Not To Take That Job: Tumult, Betrayal, Heroics, and the Transformation of Lincoln Center (2014, Public Affairs). His fourth book, They Told Me Not To Take That Job: Tumult, Betrayal, Heroics and the Transformation of Lincoln Center, was a New York Times best seller. He has written extensively and spoken widely about philanthropy, the performing arts, humanitarian causes and issues, and the leadership and management of nonprofit institutions.
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Arogyaswami Mudaliar while continuing to be a Member of the Legislative Council moved a cut motion on Excise demand in 1927 said that in addition to the Simon Commission question, the government's refusal to accept his proposal for total prohibition had also caused his resignation.Madras Legislative Council Proceedings (March 1927) "Volume 48" Pg 75 Between 1919-20 and 1923-24 Madras (Presidency) was able to close only 65 liquor shops whereas, in the same period Bombay Presidency had closed down 4,409 shops, Bengal 5000 shops and United Provinces 2,400 shops Madras Legislative Council Proceedings (March 1927) "Volume 35" Pg 216 Speaking on his vision of Swaraj (freedom) in the Madras Legislative Assembly "I would ask those who wish to attain Swaraj first of all to work to unify the people. Abolish caste distinctions, educate the poor...so that they will understand what politics is...(then) Swaraj will be yours for the asking".Madras Legislative Council Proceedings ( 1 pm 24 August 1927)Pg 185 Side by side he was active in promoting medical development as a recent (2013) article in the Hindu newspaper, Chennai mentions that the Tambaram Sanatorium, Madras was inaugurated on 31 March 1929 was attended by Dewan Bahadur RN Arogyaswami Mudaliar, Minister for Development in the Dr. P. Subbaroyan government and Rt. Hon.
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