Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House had already passed the Patman Bill providing for immediate payment in greenbacks of the Bonus due in 1945 (TIME, Jan. 21). What lay ahead was well known: Passage of a cash Bonus bill; a Presidential veto; an overriding of the veto by the House; a nip & tuck contest in the Senate in which the veto would probably be sustained on condition the President accept a compromise...
15th Century Portraits. Bartolommeo Colleoni was a 18th Century gangster who earned undying fame by making a shrewd contract with the Venetian Republic. He agreed to lead the Venetian army against Milan in return for a large sum in cash and a statue of himself on horseback in the middle of St. Mark's Square. The statue was finally erected blocks away, but it was by Verrocchio. It is now generally considered the greatest equestrian statue in the world...
...should win, and the rest of the ten get ants in their pants and run out-you pay the freight-because the Wirephoto contracts do not hold the users jointly and severally liable. I merely suggest that the intelligent thing to do is protect your own cash drawer." Shaking his grey mane, he shouted: "Break away from the throne long enough to show you have some independence left...
...since 1932 has eaten into the surplus of A. T. & T. and its subsidiaries to the extent of about $110,000,000. Every three months, just before the directors meet for dividend action, Wall Street nervously debates the possibility of a dividend cut. But with $250,000,000 in cash & Government bonds and surplus still above $400,000,000, A. T. & T. manages to stand the strain. Last week President Gifford was almost sanguine on the business outlook. Telephones in use registered a net gain of 112,000 in the three-month period, jumped another 22,500 in the first...
...National Cash Register...