Word: collection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this harangue (for I'm sure it will be considered as such), I feel certain that we all agree with St. Paul that "the greatest of these (faith, hope and charity) is charity". If the University will collect charity money at the next football games, let it be used either to decrease unemployment by keeping students in college, in which they have invested their money, or to increase the wages of the University's employees...
...crowd which their team attracts each Saturday to be canvassed for any loose change that may be lefty in individual Jeans after the purchase of a $4 or $5 admission ticket. The gift is particularly generous in this blase age of ours when good cords are hard to collect, and in view of the optimism expressed by the President of the Student Council who hopes for an average contribution of twenty-five cents per spectator. Most gratifying of all is the announcement that a plan has at last been found which President Lowell "will not oppose." Judging from the past...
...Delaware County Orphans Court at Media, Pa. last week was tried the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's suit to collect $31,465,200 inheritance taxes from the estate of the late Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, founder and 94% owner of Campbell Soup Co. The Commonwealth, which appraises the estate at $200,000,000. contends that Dr. Dorrance's real home was his estate Woodcrest, at Radnor, Delaware County, which he acquired in 1925. The doctor's widow, Mrs. Ethel Mallinckrodt Dorrance, his brothers Dr. George Morris and Arthur C. (respectively chairman of the board and president...
...toward cancelling War debts to the U. S. Such a move has the backing of bankers like Chase National's Albert Wiggin because if foreign governments have to repay their War loans to the U. S., banks like the Chase will have to wait a long time to collect their foreign loans. But Senators like WilHam Edgar Borah of Idaho and Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas were quick to catch up the President when they thought they detected a cancellationist note in his Super Plan as read to them at the caucus. Therefore surprise was occasioned last week when...
...Master Sergeant David Samiran, stationed at Wright Field, Ohio. The invention, known as a segregator, is based on the difference in specific gravity between gasoline and water. Water and sediment are diverted through a waste valve. The segregator was patented by Sergeant Samiran, who will be permitted to collect royalties for its commercial application...