Word: collect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. Exultant in his private office which one enters through the anteroom to the men's toilet in Manhattan's Ritz Theatre, Morris Watson made plans to return, at least long enough to collect the accumulated back pay due him under the Labor Board's ruling that the AP must compensate him for the difference between his WPA pay, $200 monthly, and his $295 AP salary. Pleased at his victory and at receiving $1,710, Morris ("Gandhi") Watson was not sure that he wished to abandon what has begun to be a successful theatrical career as director...
...value of Colonel Green's estate at $44,384,500. This may be as much as $50,000,000 short of the final figure, for as yet nobody knows exactly how much Hetty Green's big cub did leave. According to Texas arithmetic, the Federal Government will collect $20,812,905 in inheritance taxes. Other tax bills: $7,132,000 (New York); $5,809,000 (Massachusetts); $5,335,000 (Florida); $5,326,000 (Texas). Total asked by Federal and State Governments: $44,414,905. If administration of the estate costs $2,000,000, Mr. McCraw figured that...
...that time decision will be reached on the key problem of whether or not to collect money for the Red Cross in Spain...
Pennsylvania's medical students use 1,000 bodies a year. Up to eight students may work on one corpse, sharing the laboratory costs. These vary from $17 to $22 a body, depending upon the expenses to which Dr. Hewson's board was put to collect, preserve and distribute the stock. After dissection, remnants are packed in plain boxes, prayed over, buried in a cemetery...
...book has its basis, as the title suggests, in thoughts which passed through the author's mind one night in the desert. Priestley had spent the winter of 1935 in America, and on the eve of his departure, he goes to his shack in the desert to collect his manuscripts and notes. As he passes over the scattered pages, memories of their significance come into his mind. With this as the structure of his book, he goes on with no definite order to give his memoirs and thoughts about various incidents and phases of his travels in this country...