Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hotel's butcher called to collect what was due him, $100. The drummer's money being handy, the cashier paid with that. The butcher went on down the street, paid his rent, $100. The landlord owed his lawyer $100. The lawyer owed the doctor. The doctor owed the hotel $100. Before dark the same $100 bill was back in the hotel's safe. In came the drummer...
...mails to defraud in a scheme to convert garbage to gasoline. Released from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary last June, New York authorities requested his extradition on a perjury charge connected with the same case. Governor Russell refused on the grounds that Fuller's further prosecution was an attempt to collect a private debt...
...certificates, negotiable, would have fixed values as follows: wheat 42? per bu.; cotton 5? per lb.; tobacco 4? per lb.; hogs 2? per lb. After harvest the farmer would sell his full crop in the open market. Thereupon the Treasury would step in and collect as an excise tax 42? from millers on every bushel of wheat they bought for flour, 5? from spinners on every pound of cotton, 4? from cigaret & cigar manufacturers on every pound of tobacco, 2? from meat packers on every pound of hog. Thus special treasury funds would be created out of which the Secretary...
...Hoover Destroyed Everything," During the fateful 14-hour Chamber debate which ended at 6:03 a. m., speakers for virtually all French parties voiced in various ways these basic French convictions: 1) that France, against whom Germany launched her major onslaught in 1914-18, is justly entitled to collect from beaten Germany at least as much as France pays to her Allies; 2) that President Hoover, by imposing his one-year Moratorium against strenuous French objections, destroyed what remained of the possibility of collecting Reparations and destroyed it in the interest of U. S. owners of German securities whose investments...
...John Silsbee Lawrence, treasurer of the New England Council: "I have informed my Hartford legal friend to call off the suit which I had asked him to bring against you on next Monday if the debt was not paid by that time. . . . Why it should be so hard to collect a gambling debt, I do not know...