Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Summer of 1921, Prince Yusupov, whose family was once reputed the "richest in Russia," found himself in financial straits. To raise immediate cash, he had already hypothecated these two historic Rembrandts, smuggled out of Soviet Russia in a manner still unexplained, for the admittedly inadequate sum of 45,000 pounds sterling...
This is what Prince Yusupov is now trying to do, and is prepared to do, so far as having the cash in hand is concerned. He has proffered a check for $520,334, representing the current value of 100,000 pounds sterling plus 29 months' interest at 8%-a profit for Mr. Widener of $155,334 on his money investment, if he chooses to take it in that...
...only on account of the leniency of their creditors. Low prices for farm products, high prices for labor and manufactured goods, high local taxes are responsible for the situation. The Secretary proposed no general remedy but suggested that selling our surplus grain to some country which could not pay cash but could give obligations to pay later was worth consideration...
...trophy will be given to each of the students in the winning club, as well as a cash prize. The Ames prize is considered the highest honor to be obtained in the Law School...
...aged bookseller of Riceyman Steps, Clerkenwell, and of Violet Arb, well-to-do widow, past 40 who had recently inherited the confectioner's shop across the way, was an odd but happy linking together of two penny-pinching temperaments. The grand passion of Henry's life was for solid cash ? a passion so strong it attained the proportions of self-sacrificing heroism. When he discovered on the eve of his marriage that Violet had actually been paying their mutual charwoman, Elsie, less than he, he glowed to think what a wonderful wife he was getting. So he wedded...