Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of State Stimson read the committee a long and rather dull statement detailing Germany's plight just before the Moratorium announcement. When the committee began a series of gentle questions, Statesman Stimson grew fussy and fidgety. "You can't send a sheriff overseas to collect the debt, you know," he snapped at one heckler. Henry Pomeroy Davison, youthful partner of J. P. Morgan & Co., was hastily summoned from New York to deny published reports that debtor nations had on deposit with his firm funds to make their Dec. 15 payments...
Immediately the kidnappers, who had their victims bound and blindfolded in a dirty farmhouse, while they fiddled with a radio, learned that they had to reckon with Missouri's mightiest, most belligerent, most implacable man. Without further attempt to collect ransom they hastily bundled Mrs. Donnelly and the chauffeur into an automobile, turned them loose on a suburban road where police found them...
...been a rising line. In 1894 the University of Berlin had just given him his Ph.D. and he was on pins & needles to get to Egypt. He had just been married, owed his wife a honeymoon. He got the University of Chicago to give him $500 to collect relics and set out full of enthusiasm, no whit deterred by his light purse. With his own money he bought a donkey on which his bride could ride if she grew tired, and set out from Cairo. The more relics he collected the more his wife had to walk, but Bridegroom Breasted...
...Louise de Koven Bowen Phelps, Ralph Mines, About 11 p. m. five gunmen burst in but the guests, playing backgammon, were not perturbed. Austin H. Niblack had just gone home and this, they thought, was some practical joke of his. They changed their minds when the bandits began to collect jewelry. While the robbers were at work Chauffeur William Matheson slipped to a telephone, in a whisper called police. Two officers arrived, were lined up with the victims by the gunmen who then lost their nerve, fled. The police gave chase, shooting and shot at, and recovered an overcoat containing...
Clubs such as these, Mr. Page believes, are excellent for discussing socialistic problems, but should try more to share the difficulties of the poor during this winter, and if possible to collect old clothes for them...