Word: collect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ever since he was ousted from his film company in 1930, William Fox has spent his time scheming for a return to power, collecting modern and antique musical instruments and practicing golf, which, because of his crippled arm. he plays with one hand. For one brief interlude last year he returned to the spotlight when the U. S. Senate Banking & Currency Committee summoned him to Washington. There he promptly ducked into bed. Physicians bickered for days as to whether he was really sick or not. and Mr. Fox never testified. The Committee was puzzled by his income tax return...
...Castle Hedingham Court, she protested that she had been trying to stop the riot. With the whole countryside smoldering indignation, the court adjourned the case until after harvest time, enjoined the farmers to go out and reap what they have sown-after which attempts will undoubtedly begin to collect a tithe of the harvest. In all about ?3,000,000 ($14,580,000 at par) are collected annually in tithes, two-thirds by that hoary institution called Queen Anne's Bounty. Its Chairman George Middleton is a onetime Laborite M. P. and friend of Scot MacDonald. Whenever the Prime...
...temporary blanket code. To 5,000,000 employers postmen delivered 5,000,000 blank copies of this man-to-man "partnership" code for upping wages, reducing working hours, increasing purchasing power faster than prices. Thousands of employers signed the agreement quickly, heedlessly, sprinted to the post office to collect their free allotment of "NRA Member-We Do Our Part" advertising material. To each employer was given one large Blue Eagle placard, two small ones, five large square stickers, ten small oval stickers. And thousands of employers anxiously pondered the code, wondering how they could pay their factory help...
...sold short 950,000 bushels of July corn, that they and others long 9,000,000 bushels of corn engineered a "corner" in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, forcing up prices, causing him a loss of $300,000. Under the anti-trust law, a victim may collect damages equal to three times his losses. Multiplying by three and adding $100,000 for legal expenses, Mr. Backus sued...
...another large slice not yet technically so listed. Not less than 410 cities and towns have defaulted on their bonds. This is not a bad record compared to industry's defaults, but it is a nasty record considering the fact that cities, unlike industries, have legal authority to collect revenue in bad times as well as good...