Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offering devalued money in place of old-size dollars to its own bondholders. That, said the Court, was not a question of regulating the value of money but of the Government's keeping its promises. In short, Government bondholders have now the right but no legal opportunity to collect, and morally the Government is no better than a malefactor who takes refuge behind a legal technicality-in this case the right not to be sued without its own consent. No pretty position is this for any government to be in. It posed a problem in New Deal morals...
...John Alexander Assheton promptly pointed out, all Eagle's oil comes not from conceded State lands but from land privately owned. However, according to the original concession, Eagle had the right to import supplies duty free. President Assheton was prepared last week to fight off any attempt to collect back duties on those imports. Nonetheless, the decree frightened every foreign businessman in Mexico, for, if the Government can cancel Eagle's ironclad concession, what contracts can it not cancel...
...figure--exactly $97,603,005.49 as of December 31, 1931, after the stock market crash of 1929 which sent many millionaires into near-poverty--was calmly disclosed by Mellon's confidential secretary as he testified at the hearing by which the Federal Government seeks to collect an additional $3,000,000 on Mellon's 1931 income...
Furious Mrs. George W. J. Bissell, widow of Pittsburgh's Stoveman Bissell, whose California vacation was spoiled by news that her home, heirlooms and art collection had gone up in smoke, dispatched a letter to the Pittsburgh city council: "I have just been informed . . . that the fire department had come to the fire with insufficient hose to reach the plug, and that by the time they had sent about the city to collect ample hose it was too late. My family had paid taxes on that house for 50 years to procure fire protection, yet in the only fire...
...subject to head pains, fits of giggling. He played with younger children. Mr. & Mrs. Lepeiro took their dull son to Psychiatrist Hyman Levin of the Buffalo State Hospital. Dr. Levin gave him an intelligence test, flunked him, and last week went to court to help the Lepeiros collect $25,000 from the Laubes...