Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Real option of the Senate was between two bills each of which would cost the Government upwards of $2,000,000,000. One of these, the Vinson Bill, was sponsored by the American Legion whose members were willing to let the Government raise the cash by customary "sound" means, i. e. borrowing. The alternative, Patman Bill, was sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, an older, smaller organization, which in recent years has found that the most headway is gained by always outbidding the Legion by longer and more radical demands upon the Government. Hence the VFW, Patman Bill, demanded...
...Biological Survey alarmed at the dwindling U. S. supply of wild duck, his agents have lately redoubled their efforts to smash the 'legging ring. They have got no help from natives. Eastern Shore merchants are notoriously incurious about the source of their customers' cash. But when Federal men arrested Tom Reed and one Bill Powell they were sure they had the Al Capones of ducklegging. Last week Tom Reed, a clean-cut, well-dressed young man, went on trial in Federal Court at Norfolk, Va. Trapper Reed swore that on Dec. 20, 1934 he was in Pocomoke...
...doctrines of Pope Leo XIII, he determined to descend from moral generalities to hard social particulars. With uncommon eloquence he articulated popular discontent. When he reviled unemployment, mass production, unequal distribution of wealth, his mail reached new peaks-at times 1,000,000 letters per week. With it came cash, cash, cash- more than enough to pay large radio bills, to begin erection of a $1,000,000 church with a 150-ft. cruciform tower to be Priest Coughlin's haven...
...first of these proposed scholarship funds will provide for the award of an annual cash prize to that student who, in the opinion of the Spanish Department, has attained the highest distinction in Spanish literature. The second will afford substantial aid to men of restricted means who are majoring in Spanish. The Club hopes to be able, in future years, to establish a scholarship for study at the University of Madrid...
...Claiming that Missouri-Kansas had grossly misrepresented its stock to the public, the Government called a witness who testified that the company had claimed to have $27,000,000 in cash in 1930 whereas actually there was less than $4,000,000. Another declared that Frank Parish and the stock-selling company he organized to sing the praises of Mo-Kan securities had used company money to manipulate the stock. That was the" real reason for Mo-Kan's downfall, said the prosecutor, who added that Frank Parish & wife had taken secret profits of $950,000 in stock manipulations...