Word: bond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corporation launched a $3,000,000 bond issue, of which $2,200,000 will be used for the foundation's debts, the rest to start a new museum in Claremore. Governor Murray went on the radio to ask the public to subscribe $100,000 immediately to meet pressing needs, and by last week, $50,000 had been pledged or was in hand. Gilcrease himself plans to move from Tulsa to Claremore, to serve as director of the new museum. Anxious only to keep his collection together, Gilcrease was delighted with the prospect. Said he: "I set up [the collection...
...constituents. "I will not," he declared, "take the oath of allegiance to a foreign Queen of a bastard nation." When elected, Kelly refused to take his seat. Last week, in a North Irish court, he was found guilty of sedition, and given the alternative of posting a $280 bond for five years' good behavior or going to jail for a year. Cantankerous Kelly chose jail. But, said he, "I will never submit to wearing prison garb. You may hold me, but you will hold me naked...
Unprecedented as it was to arrest a former chief of state and then to put him under heavy bond besides, there was little doubt that Prío had openly courted trouble. Ever since Dictator Fulgencio Batista booted him out of Cuba, the well-heeled former President has been hard at work organizing a revolutionary comeback from his Miami mansion. The current charge grew out of a police raid last December on a vacant filling station at Mamaroneck, N.Y., near Long Island Sound. Stumbling on an impressive cache of grenades, bazooka shells and explosives, the cops arrested four...
...come to see the glass flowers every year--the specimens that Bierweiler mounts, catalogues, and preserves. On the 50th anniversary of his unique service his friends held a celebration at the Faculty Club in his honor. To commemorate his half century of devotion they presented him with a government bond and an illuminated scroll which proclaims the University's debt...
Windup. In Marlboro, Mass., Marion K. Z. Stone ran this ad in the Daily Enterprise: "Having satisfactorily severed my marriage bond after 19 years, I wish to express . . . gratitude to John E. Rice for counseling, Arthur Bastien and Fred Williams for legal service, the Stone family for a friendly attitude . . . P. S. I have three beagle mongrel pups free for anyone...