Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deposits, dividends, and securities. Most laymen and many lawyers think of escheat only when persons die without wills and heirs. Last week smart lawyers all over the U. S. eyed with admiration a lawsuit filed in the Dauphin County Court at Harrisburg to compel the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to collect by escheat some 15 millions tucked away in the treasuries of Pennsylvania's 150 biggest corporations. If the suit succeeds, its two principal sponsors, a pair of young Philadelphia lawyers named Michael Edelman and Abram Jere Creskoff stand to collect $3,000,000 as the State's informers...
Under Pennsylvania law the informer of such funds could collect 25% of what is left after the State pays its lawyers to prosecute the suit. Technicalities over the $160,000 have at long last reached the U. S. Supreme Court whose rulings in comparable cases have upheld the escheat rights of the States. Spurred by the distant glint of a $34,000 commission on the $160,000, Prospectors Edelman & Creskoff went sluicing up the creeks of other Pennsylvania escheat tributaries. Taking corporations capitalized at above $2,000,000, they analyzed corporation statements and manuals, traced unclaimed dividends, stocks, bonds, interest...
...Leaders in this movement of mercy were onetime New Dealer Gardner Jackson, New York's representative Caroline O'Day, Retiring President Mary Emma Woolley of Mt. Holyoke College, Professor James Thomson Shotwell of Columbia University. A French ship was reported on its way to Bilbao to collect the young Basques. The U. S. Consulate General in Paris was being asked for 500 temporary visitors' visas. Offers of more than 2,700 homes for the young Basques had been received from U. S. sympathizers...
Continuing their losing streak, the Mitchellmen could collect but three hits against the pitching of the Brown moundsmen, Devaney, at Providence yesterday, losing 4-2. Curtiss allowed the Bruins only 6 blows...
...question of organization from the top down--the general House manager getting a man for each sport, and then it's up to him to collect the men for the team. "We had difficulty getting Sophomores at the beginning of this year," he admitted, but he must have been successful later on, because there were seven '39ers on the championship Deacon crew...