Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parties, Come-As-You-Were-When-the-Autobus-Called Parties, Scavenger Parties, Come-As-Somebody-Else Parties, Come-As-Your-Opposite-Parties, Come-As-the-Person-You-Like-Best Parties. Elsa Maxwell gave them, somebody else paid for them. After the crash, she returned to Manhattan via Hollywood, to cash in on her amazing reputation. Last week she had a job organizing the floor show of a Manhattan night club. Same day as the dream party, she organized a publicity stunt for the night club out of the latest fad of European socialites: levitation...
During the panic of 1857, when nearly every bank in the land suspended specie payments at least temporarily. Chemical continued to pay out cash on demand, much of it in good hard gold. Even today the bank is affectionately known to Wall Street oldsters as "Old Bullion...
...lusty, Boston-born Leon Fraser was adopted by a wealthy couple named Bonar. At 20 he flunked out of Columbia University, returned the next year to win every money prize offered for scholarship. A lawyer by training, he had never worked in a bank that received or paid out cash when, at 43, he was elected president of the Bank for International Settlements. B. I. S., known as the "Bank without a Vault,"* had been handling Reparations payments under the Young Plan. When the Young Plan payments were stopped by President Hoover's moratorium, Banker Fraser helped develop...
...Last week Lord Betterton bustled about new quarters in Thames House in London, organizing a staff which will total some 5,000 dole administrators. Their job will be to see that jobless Britons between 16 and 65 whose earnings never averaged more than $25 per week receive the cash that is their due "as a matter of right and decency" providing they make bona fide efforts to get to work. This makes Lord Betterton the stern official Santa Claus of some 17,000,000 subjects of George V. Said Santa Betterton. "We are setting up no soulless machine...
When jumping-jackish little Mayor LaGuardia popped a scheme to put New York City into the power business last month, there were three loud repercussions. President Roosevelt invested a local rate wrangle with national significance by egging the Mayor on with promises of PWA cash. Consolidated Gas Co. promptly halved its dividend to $1. And Chairman Floyd Leslie Carlisle of Consolidated evidenced a pronounced change of heart toward the city and its citizens...