Word: collectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON is gratified to announce that Dr. Hu Flung Huey has landed safely in Agua Caliente, Mexico, after a non-stop flight from Honolulu. The following collect telegram from the Oriental grid score dopester is self-explanatory...
...things the farmer buys, with taxing necessities of the public more than the luxuries of the rich, with increasing duties for industries already prosperous, with giving the President too much discretion to change tariffs under the flexible provision. Was it a farmers' tariff, he asked, that would collect $146,000,000 duty on sugar which farmers and everyone else buys, and $103,000,000 duty on all other farm product imports? Why should the duty on reindeer meat be increased from 4? to 6? the pound when in 1928 only 3,198 lb. were imported (from Norway...
...Oscar Slater, Edinburgh Jew, jailed on a murder charge. Sir Arthur guaranteed $5,000 for Slater's retrial, paid $1,500 of that sum himself. Year ago Slater was retried, released, awarded $30,000 government compensation for his long jail term. Last week Scot Doyle, still unable to collect his $1,500, remarked: "Slater is not a murderer but an ungrateful dog, and I think the Scottish nation should repay me." Prosperous, clad in voluminous plus-fours, smoking a fat cigar, Oscar Slater received newsgatherers in his suite at a large hotel in Brighton (Britain's Atlantic City...
...busiest day of Freshman activity will get under way this morning with a fifteen minute service in Appleton Chapel at which Professor Merriman, member of the department of History, will preach. This service starts at 8:45 o'clock, and immediately thereafter the class will collect in the New Lecture Hall for advice and counsel about the ordering of their courses...
...Nordstern and Bodensee (since wrecked) were confiscated by France and Italy for War damages. The Los Angeles the U. S. forced it to build. Dr. Eckener, great publicist,* organized the Zeppelin- Eckener Spends (gifts, alms) and despatched collectors with small boxes to German street corners, theatres, beer halls, to collect pfennigs from money-pinched patriots. The pfennigs totalled enough to build the Graf Zeppelin...