Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chinese Joan. With Chinese everywhere feverishly excited by their Premier's new boldness, there arrived in Manhattan last week to collect funds attractive Miss Loh Tsei, who is known by the cash-compelling sobriquet "The Joan of Arc of China." In December of last year, Chinese students outside Peiping were trying to unite with Chinese students inside Peiping for a demonstration against Japan. In those days the policy of Premier Chiang was not yet strong and his police had locked the City's gates to keep the two groups of Chinese students apart. In this emergency, Miss...
...Chicago gunmen held up wealthy Printer John F. Cuneo and his wife in their car outside their Lake Shore Drive apartment, robbed them of $170 cash, $25,000 worth of jewelry, and the car, after forcing the Cuneos' chauffeur to drive to a lonely street. Nearby, next day Racketeer John Benedetto was found dead with a bullet in his head. Mrs. Cuneo identified him as one of the bandits, presumably shot by his accomplice...
...afternoon will see hectic photographers streaming to the Fine Arts Guild with dripping prints for the judges. The fifty early entrants whose work has already come in, are thirty on the whole, as well as beforehand. Not even the most arrant egoist felt sure enough of winning a "large cash prize" to pay for more than three over the normal quota. Or perhaps six prints is all a photographer can bear to show at once...
...into his breeches. Before they had gone far the thieves were captured. Blood refused to confess to anyone but King Charles II. Charles not only pardoned Blood but gave him back his estates which had been confiscated. Some historians think that Charles, who could always use a little ready cash, would have been pleased to see the Crown Jewels "disappear," provided that they should emerge later in a more useful form...
...decided to revoke for reasons of political prejudice. But, because of the value of a conservative reputation at a time when it is conducting an endowment drive, Princeton is loth to accept money from so dangerous a sources as the International Union. Yet the principle of turning down ready cash seems altogether ridiculous. From this simple beginning the University has built itself a mountain of a problem...