Word: collecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Correspondents knew that the Department's policy makers would soon collect on the musty second-floor offices-and soon they arrived, Secretary Hull at n p.m., Jay Pierrepont Moffat (Chief of the European Division) in a dinner jacket and black tie, Assistant Secretary Berle to spend the night at his desk. Correspondents also knew that from U. S. diplomats abroad reports would come fast: ¶Dapper, high-strung, Harvard-bred Minister Gordon at The Hague (who had spent most of the two nights before telephoning Washington ) got through an early wire of warning at 2:50 a.m., reported...
...personal damage done in grade-crossing and other accidents, U. S. railroads pay out over $20,000,000 a year. For damage done to them, they collect little or nothing. Average jury's rule of thumb: the carrier is always wrong. Last week the rule was proved by an exception...
...bill since 1897 is marked with Joe Grundy's cunning hand. In nearly every smoke-filled room that nominated a G. O. P. candidate since that day, wise, cold, realistic Mr. Grundy has sat, filling the room with smoke and influence. His role in the Party was to collect the funds that subsidized heelers and won elections. He persistently opposed labor legislation, old-age pensions because such laws cost businessmen money. The Smoot-Hawley tariff bill he still regards as his masterpiece. A bachelor, he wears high button shoes, smokes Havana cigars, burns Texas oil instead of Pennsylvania coal...
Letters will be sent out on Monday to all those who have not yet paid their pledges in the drive to collect...
...uniforms and many medals are a national-and international-joke. He lives in piratical splendor. He took his second wife, Emmy Sonnemann, out of the Prussian State Theatre, bedecked her in flowing garments to accentuate her fullblown beauty and roped her in the biggest pearls a Greek merchant could collect for him. Göring lives far beyond his salary. Nobody in Germany cares where he gets the money...