Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposal adopted by a vote of 324-49 after Mr. Johnson, outraged, asked that his name be removed from the measure. Congressman Wood pointed out that under this bill a veteran, hale and hearty, could contract gout on Dec. 31, 1929, blame it on the War eleven years before, collect, under the broad presumption clause, $225 per month as compensation. His prediction was that the House measure would add from 500 million to a billion dollars per year to the U. S. cost of veteran...
Gathered at a luncheon in Manhattan's decorous Bankers Club one noon last week were 50 of the nation's Biggest Businessmen. The occasion: to collect the first $1.000,000 of a $2,750,000 fund to build and endow a new swimming pool, dormitories, infirmary, library, auditorium for the Shanghai American School. Among those interested in what Principal Elam J. Anderson had to say were: Martin Egan, staff member of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Mo-tormaker Walter Percy Chrysler; Herbert Lee Pratt, board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New York and his Vice President Howard Ellsworth...
...Charlotte, N. C., Joe Randle moved into a three-room house built of 10,000 bricks which it had taken him 18 months to collect from alleys, gutters, vacant lots...
Although Indian Territory Illuminating Co., Cities Service subsidiary, will benefit from the gusher, co-benefactors will be Vince Sudik and his wife, Mary. In 1903 the Sudiks came from Nebraska, claimed and farmed the now-famed plot of land, will collect about one-eighth of the oil profits. Last week Mrs. Sudik was not on hand to see the gusher. She was visiting a hospital where her first grandchild had just been born. Said she: "My good fortune is having such a lovely granddaughter." Vince Sudik, however, announced his early retirement from active agriculture...
...sail vessel, built to resemble (except for a galley funnel) the oldtime Viking ships, which reached Havana last week from Port Palos, Spain, after a 42-day voyage. Aboard: a crew of four and Captain Gerhard Folgero, good friend of the late Explorer Amundsen. Their aim: to collect funds to erect an Amundsen monument...