Word: collecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Hanford explained that under General Rationing Order of the OPA, the University is required to collect ration books containing food stamps. Although all new students have been notified that ration books must be turned in to the Bursar at Lehman Hall, and older students were familiar with the requirement, many ration books have not been turned...
...London last week well-bred, well-fed Herbert Claiborne Pell, U.S. member of the United Nations Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes, continued to shuffle his papers, read reports, collect data. But his time, and the American people's, was running out. The corpses of three German officers dangling in the cold market square at Kharkov, swiftly tried and swiftly hanged by the Russians for the slaughter of Russian civilians, posed a question to Americans. What responsibility shall the U.S. take in the punishment of the war guilty...
...great ripping of one pants leg, yanks a man into a room where two ladies are seated ("I divorced him years ago, but our retriever keeps bringing him back"). And there are two contestants glaring at each other from corners stacked with magazines ("They're seeing who can collect the National Geographic for the longest time without a break...
Irvin Cobb, ill (pneumonia) in Manhattan, deplored admirers who sent him regrets about his "dangerous illness" by wire (collect) or phone (charges reversed...
...incidentally led to the jailing of famed Boss Tom Pendergast for income-tax evasion. The criminal aspects of that case are more typical of the low state of Missouri politics than of the manner in which fire underwriters normally win friends and influence legislatures. Pendergast & Co. were convicted of collecting large slush funds for supporting the fire companies in a rate fight. The more pertinent facts: 1) since 1922, Missouri has been trying to enforce a 10% reduction in rates; 2) since 1930 it has been trying to collect (for Missouri policyholders) a 16⅔% rate increase the industry...