Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week an attorney of Linden, N. J. named Max J. Berlin moved to bring the Law on Bingo operators. Under a statute which allows "informers" to collect 1% of fines levied upon lawbreakers, he had evidence collected, instituted suits in the name of a client against 14 theatres and lodges, six churches. Said Lawyer Berlin: "This demoralization of the public must stop at once...
...Sakel cure is complicated, difficult and dangerous because the patient must almost die of insulin shock several times before he can collect and use his wits like a normal human being. Dr. Sakel applies his treatment in four stages. For two weeks or so, according to the patient's reaction, he administers increasingly large hypodermic doses of insulin. When the insulin doses become powerful enough to cause insulin shock (profuse sweating, coma), Dr. Sakel is ready for the second, or shock phase of his treatment. This consists of inducing coma for several hours a day for several days. This...
...thought it would be foolish to build up such a huge reserve. For the time being he would be content to let the reserve pile up, but after it has got a start, adopt a "pay-as-you-go" policy, presumably reducing Social Security taxes so as to collect no more than was paid out in pensions...
Last week "Phil" Plant and his second wife put their special floating trailer aboard ship in Manhattan, set sail for Africa to collect ostriches and wart hogs for the American Museum of Natural History. But pheasants from the Plant collection of 3,000, one of the largest in the East, were among the Nepal Kaleeges, Blue Manchurians, Cheers, Versicolors and Impeyans which graced the Poultry Show. "They're just to look at," explains Fancier Plant. "They might replace peacocks that people keep in penthouses. They're like a miniature peacock, but they're more dainty. There...
Whenever a question of raising money from undergraduates comes up, the perennial difficulty is how to collect the levy in the most painless fashion. There are many Freshmen who have their funds very carefully budgeted, and ten dollars would be an undeniable hardship for them. In the case of those holding scholarships, some compromise could be worked out by which to avoid this extra burden on those seeking an education under difficult circumstances...