Word: cash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That retreat marked the political and military eclipse of Baron Wrangel. His misfortune was made complete when Fate snatched from him his wife, her immensely valuable jewels, and his personal fortune which he had converted into cash. These three most valued possessions were lost when the yacht Lucullus sank in collision with the British steamer Adria off Constantinople harbor. After that triple misfortune Baron Wrangel gradually became little more than a lanky, itinerant White Hope...
Examinations have been held in 19 other universities and institutions throughout the East, and some time with in a month the winners from each institution will compete for the national prize of $500 in cash...
...Fall, Secretary of the Interior in the Harding Cabinet, to lease the Teapot Dome oil reserve fraudulently in 1922. The Government proceeded to show that Fall avoided other bids for the lease until after Sinclair's lease was secretly signed; that Sinclair later gave Fall $304,000 in cash and Liberty Bonds, $233,000 being for a one-third interest in Fall's ranch, for which Sinclair never took a receipt. The Government was prepared to show that the Fall ranch was worth only $70,000 by its owner's sworn statement. But the Government thought best...
...Louis Groceries. Three Kohn brothers owned 42 Kohn (cash-&-carry grocery) Stores at St. Louis; Missouri-Illinois Stores owned no competing piggly wiggly, serve-self groceries. All 152 were merged for better buying and management...
...soften public opinion excited against them by the neighborhood store keepers. Kroger's and Penney's this year have set afoot large campaigns of "institutional" advertising, praising the service of the chains and attempting to "humanize" them. Penney's, especially, is utilizing the personality of James Cash Penney, its founder. Other chains, on the other hand, keep up the policy of vending food impersonally...