Word: collect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think of as their richest countryman was hard up. A Kaiser no longer, he was still the head of a Royal House, responsible for the miniature court at Doom, the princelings and the horde of poor relations. The solution, old Wilhelm concluded, was to move to Germany to collect the rents and later, perhaps, the crown and country. The walls of the quiet room were crowded with mementoes of the great days before 1918. Potsdam was only 16 years and 350 mi. away. Listening to their father's proud boasts, the sons felt 16 years younger but they looked...
...wagon, who represented himself as a humane society officer, seized dogs, held them for ransom. In Kansas City, Alice Wolfberg missed her chow, Ching. By telephone a man demanded $10 from her, later $20. She agreed to pay but summoned police. They arrested two men who arrived to collect...
...nursery. At the age of six, he emerged briefly to abdicate after the successful revolution of Canton's great Sun Yatsen. He continued to live in the Forbidden City, studying with his British tutor. Sir Reginald Johnston, a former customs official of Weihaiwei. and attempting to collect the magnificent salary of $4,000,000 that the Republican Government promised him but never paid...
...handling the tariff situation is granted, it will be definitely a constructive move toward the improvement of tariff difficulties," said Anton De Haas, Professor in the Business School of International Relationships yesterday when interviewed by the CRIMSON. "If we are to restore foreign trade, reestablish normal relations, and collect some of the money the world owes us, it will be necessary to make fundamental changes in the tariff, changes which President Roosevelt intends to produce...
...gone into partnership with the productive capacity or earning power of individuals as well as companies. In a nutshell, the Government splits on a thirty-seventy basis on all $100,000 incomes and, while the proportion may be open to debate, depending on what amounts are desired to collect, there can be no doubt that the treasury's fortunes are dependent upon a continuance of a system of rewards for individual earning power...