Word: collection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Manhattan Federal Judge John C. Knox, having hearkened to this plea, signed a garnishment order-but an order for only $160 per month. At this rate the judgment against Mr. Hammond would be liquidated in 957 years and eight months. Irving Trust Co. would collect its last cent in the year...
...Mayo Clinic is a partnership of a few men headed by the Brothers Mayo. They and all their staff receive flat yearly salaries and collect no fees. For example, the late Edward Starr Judd, their nephew by marriage and like them a onetime president of the American Medical Association, received $75,000 a year. "Fellows" who work in the Clinic, and who must have interned elsewhere, average $70 a month and keep. Typists and secretaries average $100 a month...
...Black Boys went after the pack trains hotter than ever. Fort Bedford, 30 miles away, answered by wholesale arrests. At dawn a few days later James Smith and 19 Black Boys leaped from behind an embankment before the Fort entrance, streaked through the gates before a dazed sentry could collect his wits, covered the dumbfounded garrison of crack regulars gathered about their morning rum ration. The whole operation required less than two minutes. Eight days later Smith was arrested and put on trial for murder. Following his prompt acquittal, he was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly...
...thing she has any thought for. Until he is 13 she is still bathing him like a baby. Later to keep him in school in Chicago, she sends him her wages, sells her silver and furniture. The only time she sees him again is when he comes back to collect the money from the last of her land. At 35, Famie looks like an old woman; kinfolk have disowned her for selling her land; her only friend is a big, serious-minded, coal-black field hand...
...Informers may still collect in intestate cases. Pending is the possible 25% which shrewd John R. K. Scott of Philadelphia hopes to collect from the $20,000,000 estate of the late snuff Heiress Mrs. Henrietta Garrett. Some 2,000 persons are currently claiming heirship, must be eliminated, however, before the estate escheats...