Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interlocking agencies, the Tariff Association and Taxpayers League share the same Washington 'offices, the same office staff, the same cash solicitors. Their collections are pooled. Their field agents last year brought in $209,586. In return they supplied contributors with "educational bulletins" on tax and tariff matters, gave "expert" advice on fiscal affairs. Sample expenditure: $700 to Frank D. Mondell, onetime Republican floor leader of the House, now a lobbying lawyer, to urge a higher duty on peanuts before the tariff commission. The sum of $77,936.44 went to Lobbyist Arnold and his three chief assistants, one of whom...
...Chamber molten, Prime Minister Tardieu leaped in to mold his fate. He was convincing and precise where M. Briand had been gaseously sublime. Yes, his Government stood for early evacuation of French troops from the Rhine, but not until Germany has ratified the Young Plan, which guarantees huge cash sums to France. The date set at The Hague for evacuation? he hammered in the date, June 30, 1930? was no longer binding, in his opinion, because the unforeseen death of Dr. Strese-mann has delayed German ratification of the Plan...
...banks, even the Federal Reserve System, issue more money in paper than they have gold in their vaults. Every bank would be broken if all its depositors simultaneously attempted to exchange paper for gold. And, unhappily, the Industrial Bank had held itself to no fair ratio between cash and paper. Auburn at 514?Johns Manville at 242? Radio at 114?here were bank-branches with a topheavy proportion of notes to cash. Even the biggest and most secure branches, such as General Electric, American Telephone &Telegraph, United States Steel, constituted inflated currency when their securities stood...
...Evening News gave $50,000. The Hoefler Ice Cream Co. gave $2,500. Driver Cooke and three other trustees gave $800,000. Out-of-town alumni sent $29,450 and 175 students at the Law School raised $2,963.50. . . . When finally the crusade was over and all the cash in hand, Driver Cooke said: "I'm very happy-and goddam tired...
...General Motors' present leaning to aviation may be considered world-spread. General Motors is the emergency reservoir whence Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker draws cash and credit for his airplane factories in Holland and nine other European countries. Last week he disembarked at England from the U. S. and hastened to Mr. Sloan's transient London quarters. There they held a quick, pointed conference on combining European and American Fokker interests into a worldwide organization with factories on both continents and a centralized sales agency. Quickly after the talk Mr. Fokker left England in his private trimotored plane...