Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Chicago's 18,000 school teachers and school employes got paid in cash their last September salaries. Some $26,000,000 was still owed them. Mayor Kelly hoped to sell enough tax anticipation warrants this week, and collect enough taxes, to pay school salaries...
...what had become of him until two days before the trial. The charge was simple. The beautiful Camilla seduced Ugo when she learned that he was employed as a messenger in the Ministry of Marine. His job was to carry important documents from one office to another, also to collect and burn all waste paper in every office every night. Documents he photographed or copied. From the scrap-basket scribblings he managed to guess very shrewdly just what plans were under consideration. The beautiful Camilla smuggled the documents out of the country to France and Jugoslavia in the frames...
...protection"' of bondholders is a big phrase in Depression. "Protective committees" are formed, they solicit holders of defaulted bonds to deposit their securities, they try by protest and lawsuit to collect-the expenses of the effort being charged against the bond owners. So many protective committees exist today that they have been called "the bellyaching racket." Even the proposed U. S. securities bill would create a corporation to protect U. S. holders of foreign bonds. And a committee was announced last week in London, to be headed by popular Sir Harry Armstrong, who retired in 1931 as British Consul...
...Council were thus able to collect a useful group of members, it would be in a position to revise many of its old mistakes, and to become an efficient student organ. It should, in the first place, publish its findings, and the facts about its various activities, so that the students may know what is being done for them and may voice their opinions. Such a policy would arouse interest and invigorate the whole organization. In the second place, the sphere of activity of the Council should be widened, and more important, the many issues directly affecting the student body...
Whether or not it was necessary to collect $300,000 from the public in order to have opera in New York next season, the Metropolitan's drive for funds had two happy results...