Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jovial Irishman named Victor Herbert (Mlle Modiste) and an ex-U. S. Marine Corps bandmaster named John Philip Sousa ("The Stars and Stripes Forever") founded A. S. C. A. & P. to collect royalties for songwriters and com posers whose works were then being bandied from one cafe to another with never a penny's profit to the men who made them. At first it was uphill sledding bu. Victor Herbert had a smart attorney named Nathan Burkan and a willing helper named Eugene Howard Buck, who collaborated on 20 Ziegfeld Follies. Under George Maxwell, its first president, and now under...
...other hundreds of mobile stores weaving in & about Chicago. It was merely the hoary premium plan?with a twist. His brother-in-law thought it was a pretty good idea and they set up "Jewel Tea Co., Skiff & Ross, Proprietors." The idea: give housewives the premium first; let them collect the coupons later...
...Hood was a clientless architect in Manhattan, married and $10,000 in debt. News came that a design he had drawn for the $7,000,000 Chicago Tribune Tower had won its $50,000 competition prize. He had to borrow to buy an overcoat to travel to Chicago and collect his money. Because he had submitted his design from the office of John Mead Howells he had to turn $40,000 of his prize over to that New York architect. Soon he had all the commissions he wanted. A strident exponent of functionalism, a reckless experimenter, he gave his black...
...major difference between silver purchases and other Government outlays is that the Government has to borrow or collect taxes to pay for other expenditures. ]It pays for the silver without drawing on the Treasury, simply by printing silver certificates. Under the Silver Purchase Act the Treasury must issue silver certificates to pay for the actual cost of silver it acquires, but it may issue silver certificates for the full "monetary value" of all silver purchased. Example: If the Treasury buys 100 oz. of silver at 50¢ an oz. it must issue $50 worth of silver certificates, but since...
Last week United Press set out to collect an important statistic: the number of citizens living in whole or in part on Government money. It mustered the following roll...