Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suit: An action brought by newlyweds who charged their broker (female) with "blackmail" because she tried to collect from the groom's parents her 211 mark...
...social; 2) that smartly published horsiness will pay. Editor Vischer will now run Polo solo, assisted by a learned "advisory council" and with contributions as before from wise young Robert F. Kelley of the New York Times, famed Horse Artist Paul Brown. Reading with even deeper interest, expecting to collect dividends, will be Editor Vischer's investing friends, who include John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, A. Charles Schwartz...
...Wheaton money. Frozen loans caused the trouble. It was not that the bank had not been shrewd. Two of the directors, John Moran and Henry Keating, were good farmers and judges of value. It was just as Mr. Kusahl said: "Our reserve got low and we were unable to collect loans...
told a group of newshawks: "If I were God I would have come down and cuffed that man [Sinclair] Lewis - he'd never have gone to Stockholm to collect that Nobel award!" Observers suspected that if Evangelist Sunday were God he would have cuffed Author Lewis much more severely on the occasion of his defying the Deity from the pulpit of a church (TIME...
...work of Tycoon McGarrah has changed. The "cash register" has become a brother and nobody minds, is growing bigger every day without exciting fear. "The public is all wrong about the B.L.S.," said Tycoon McGarrah last week. "It imagines that the chief function of the institution is to collect German payments and distribute them to the debtor nations. This now amounts to only 20% of the business of the B. I. S.I) With the joy of a great man doing a great work that is fairly booming along. Gates W. McGarrah told guests at a bankers' banquet that...