Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newspapers throughout Belgium were forbidden to so much as mention the danger everyone feared. Wiseacres with cash rushed to buy stocks, real estate and then, as trading markets soared, began to jam Belgian stores...
...returns as the Bureau of Internal Revenue had not destroyed. Deploring that his records of nearly 20 years ago were not complete, he gave a tentative list of his Wartime holdings, estimating their value: $8,500,000 in bonds, $1.300,000 in the stock of three companies, plus cash balances which he could not recall. His tax returns showed: income of $2,301,000 and tax of $261,000 in 1916; income of $617,000 and tax of $264,000 in 1917; losses and no taxes...
...slept on warm sidewalk gratings, learned to read at the Public Library. One job led to another until Samuel Rosoff was building New York City subways, operating bus lines, brewing King's beer, buying race horses and making money hand over fist. Today he often carries $50,000 cash in his pockets, tells competitors: "Money talks." Shrewd at dealing with all kinds of politicians, he boasts: "I'm a member of Tammany Hall and proud of it. I'm also a Republican and proud of that. ... I haven't got education. What I got is what...
...National movement to outlaw the female practice of demanding hard cash for damaged feelings last week enlisted New York, where many an itching palm has masqueraded as a broken heart. At Albany the State Senate and Assembly passed a bill prohibiting civil suits for alienation of affections, breach of promise and seduction, sent it to Governor Herbert Lehman to sign...
...club always has a president, several vice presidents, a secretary and many committee chairmen. Then some young attaché of the Loner machine like Herbert Christenberry, brother of the Senator's Washington secretary, makes a speech promising them all a home, an automobile, a radio, $5,000 in cash, an income of not less than $2,500 a year, old-age pension, a free university education for their children-as soon as Huey is President. The more illiterate the audience, the larger the promises. Thus the strong Long machine grows stronger daily...