[Ads-l] Antedating of "Payola"

[Shapiro, Fred]

payola (OED 1937 [4 Oct.])

1937 Town & Country Feb. 121/2 (ProQuest)

And now for this department's payola, Jimmie Lunceford.

Fred Shapiro

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