Word: checking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subscription blank will be accepted unless accompanied by check or cash...
This year over 200 cases have been handled, ranging through a variety of types. One time it was a matter of a student's check being raised by a New York speakeasy; again it was a tenant fighting with his landlord over ill-heated rooms; and still a third time, it was a question of a $5,000 suit which was finally settled, under the Bureau's management...
...Catherine Shea went over from the Treasury to the White House last week with an envelope for President Hoover. In it was a check for $2,083.33, the President's salary for March 4 to March 15, inclusive...
...dealings with the U. S., prompted the Hoover decree. As Secretary of Commerce Mr. Hoover was a member of the Federal Oil Conservation Board and heard predictions by fellow engineers that the U.S. oil resources would be exhausted in five, ten or 25 years, unless steps were taken to check the flow. He knew the U.S. possessed only some 15% of the world's oil supply, yet was producing 70% of the world's demand...
Mary Garden is one of those celebrities who has reached for a fat check for endorsing Lucky Strike cigarets. Last week in Dallas, Tex., where she went to appear with the Chicago Civic Opera Company, she felt the need of a cigaret during a press interview. Six newsgatherers offered six brands of cigarets, including Lucky Strikes. Singer Garden reached for a Camel...