Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whereas the House promised veterans who turned in their bonus certificates the right to demand cash payment on the face value, less borrowings, the Senate bill promised them the same amount in $50 bonds which veterans might cash at any time...
...swing with the best of them when he wants to, arrived in Manhattan from Hollywood, gave a "recital" of jazz music 'at a midtown hotel under the auspices of Twentieth Century-Fox, for whom he had just helped make King of Burlesque, and who were anxious to cash in on the notoriety attending the burgeoning jazz movement...
Almost since tennis started, there have been professional teachers. Yet professional tennis, as a game, did not really get under way until 1926, when Charle's C. ("Cash & Carry") Pyle induced famed Suzanne Lenglen to sign a contract for exhibition matches. Last week, in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, professional tennis began its tenth season. A crowd of 15,000 watched leggy Ellsworth Vines beat handsome, lethargic Lester Stoefen 6-2, 6-2. William Tatem Tilden II, now in his sixth season as a professional and no longer a star attraction, gave expression to his egotistic dissatisfaction with...
...sport-land proprietor for maintaining a gambling establishment, had him fined $25. Encouraged by the decision, New York's Mayor LaGuardia last week announced that all 60 of the city's sportlands would be promptly closed. Pin-game players got three days in which to cash their coupons...
...Broadway, Manhattan, the directors of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. voted to retire their preferred stock at the call price of $120 per share, plus accrued dividends. Laconically the company announced it would pay off the entire issue out of its own treasury without benefit of bankers. Cash required...