Word: collection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handed over a small alligator suitcase. "There's May Fair," he said, "and the new fourth act of The Green Hat. Don't lose it on your life!" May Fair, his next book, is a continuation of These Charming People; but Arlen has not been contented merely to collect his magazine material. He went to the Riviera recently, shut himself up in a hotel room, and rewrote the sketches completely for the book. May Fair will be published this spring, and another story in the autumn...
...recover ?952, which she declared she had at various times lent Colonel Dennistoun. She charged that, in 1923, Dennistoun was living in a luxurious flat in Sackville Street and could afford to pay her. Counsel for defense denied that Colonel Dennistoun had any money from which plaintiff could collect, called the case attempted blackmail of Lady Carnarvon, said that defense had been entered because Mrs. Dennistoun would have continued to demand money if her claim had been paid...
...Treaty of Versailles is divided roughly into three sections: Financial, Military, Territorial. The amount of reparations was originally set at about $33,000,000,000, but the amount which is now thought possible to collect from Germany stands at approximately $10,000,000,000. Moreover, Germany has by a policy of inflation cancelled her entire internal debt of $50,000,000,000 (1918 value-the pre-War value would have been...
...over the previous fiscal year; to be noted is the fact that industry as a whole is only about half what it was before the war (see above). Moreover, decreased taxation does not argue for increased prosperity but rather against it; for, under present conditions, it is impossible to collect more, although the need for higher taxation is admittedly acute...
...great advantages of the endowment insurance system," said Mr. James Woodhouse, of Woodhouse and Jenney, managers of the Aetna Boston agency, in a statement to the CRIMSON yesterday, "is that it relieves the class treasurer of absolutely any work in the collection of the class fund for the whole period of 25 years. We take all the responsibility of collecting the premiums every year from each member of the class of 1925 for the fund in 25 years will mature in an endowment of $150,000, if enough policies are taken out. In the case of lapses of payment...