Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joined a blond man whose name I never knew. These three killed Jake Lingle. I think the blond man fired the shot. They were acting for Christ Patras, a north-side restaurant man, who represented Jack Zuta, business manager for the Aiello-Moran gang. When my employers went to collect the $10,000 promised them by Patras, he balked, was killed. Zuta was killed two months afterward." Not in those exact words but to that effect, Prisoner Frank Bell last week spoke rapidly to a Chicago coroner's jury, made Chicago's big crime news of the week...
...Midwestern college, suffers like her brother and sister from the constant but never recognized warfare between her father and mother. Francis pretends not to notice, Priscilla becomes a terrified invert, Matey says nothing but notices everything. When her father dies, Matey goes to Rustdorf, sleepy Hudson River town, to collect a legacy, meets her distant cousin Adrian, marries him and settles down. But both have lived in France ; when the War comes, both feel a duty to help. They take their children abroad, Adrian drives an ambulance, Matey helps her old friends. When they finally get home again to Rustdorf...
...that what they wanted was no picayune head but a frieze, 1,300 ft. long, 200 ft. high, the biggest stonecutting ever attempted, representing Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, "Stonewall" Jackson, leading the armies of the South. Corporations were formed, the inspired U. D. C. went to work to collect money...
Practically the only exceptions to the rule are the garages, where a car may still be bought on partial payments if the security looks very sound. Otherwise the adherence is firm and no $100 fine for violation has ever been imposed. The two dentists and three doctors of Bloomfield collect cash each visit (they also do charity work...
...water's edge and buttressed by two ten story office buildings. A nation-wide contest among architects of all races will be held, a popular subscription to raise $25,000,000 set into motion. Ideal way of raising the money, declared Chairman Donnelly last week, would be to collect 25? from every U. S. citizen. "Then each person would feel he owned as much in this national monument as the next one. But all this about plans and designs is just my idea of what it should be like-to give the nation and the nation's architects...