Word: collect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This relevant question completely disabled the facilities of University Hall a short time ago, simply because it came from Honolulu and demanded a reply collect...
...expert on merchandising and style promotion, had a good salary and plenty of honor as president of McCall Corp. Mr. Noah was said to be getting $50,000 as vice president of Gimbel Bros., Philadelphia. The thing that clinched their bargain with American Woolen was the right to collect a bonus of from 22% to 6% of all net profits over $2,000,000. This request the company was delighted to grant. It had lost so much money in the preceding three years that the stockholders had actually thought of giving...
Coal. A small corporation with an excellent pre-Depression earnings record is New Rochelle Coal & Lumber Co. of New Rochelle, N. Y. It sought permission to reorganize under Section 77b when a creditor, Shanferoke Coal & Supply Corp. of Delaware, sued to collect a bill of $26,051. A reorganization plan was approved by the court and by a majority of security holders and creditors, except Shanferoke Coal. That company tiled a petition in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals which resulted in a noteworthy decision...
...Santa Claus? Last week 18 meat packers headed by Armour and Swift got injunctions in Chicago forbidding the Government to collect hog processing taxes. In Virginia, P. Lorillard (Old Golds) and Philip Morris opened suits against tobacco processing taxes. In Detroit, Denver and Kansas City Federal judges restrained the Government's tax collections. Processing taxes on wheat, corn, hogs, cotton, tobacco were contested. A temporary injunction against the operation of the Bankhead Cotton Act was issued in the Texas courts. All told, AAA found itself facing 705 court challenges, which meant that 705 processors were eager to maintain before...
...self-government." Though AAA officials declared the AAAmendments pending in the Senate last week (see p. 12) would create virtually a new AAA requiring a new court test, Attorney General Cummings promised a quick appeal to the Supreme Court, no let-up in the Government's efforts to collect processing taxes. Secretary Wallace, on a visit to his mother in Colorado,† airily remarked: "The ruling is of no great consequence until it has been passed upon by the Supreme Court." But with processors' suits leaping to a total of 359 three days after the decision, collections...