Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tammany v. Rotters. Last week New Yorkers were edified to learn precisely how Tammany leaders collect on the patronage they dole out. Miss Annie Mathews, onetime (1922-29) Register of New York County and now leader in the same Democratic district with big fat-faced Martin J. Healy, whose indictment last year for accepting a $10,000 bribe in return for a judgeship began the Scandals of New York, addressed a League of Women Voters meeting, startled the community by declaring innocently...
...Budapest, Rudolph Steinherz,*; wine- merchant, got young Lajos Naghazy to murder him in a railway carriage. Object: that the Steinherz family might collect a large insurance policy. Honorarium to Lajos Naghazy: a gold watch...
Cried the stranger: "What good would that do me? With nothing but crooked lawyers and crooked judges on the bench, I'd have a fat chance to collect anything, I would...
...President's order one Chili Fish, an Oklahoma Seminole, was last week given a one-day commission as chief of all that Indian nation. During that day Chief Chili Fish will sign Government papers relating to Seminole lands in Oklahoma, transact other tribal business, collect $10 in wages, $5 in expenses. When Florida's Seminoles heard about the appointment, they telegraphed President Hoover they would refuse to recognize Chili Fish's jurisdiction in their councils...
...libel case arose out of the introduction in 1927 of a legislative bill to revoke the Society's charter. One of the provisions in New York's penal laws allows the Society to collect 50% of the fines imposed in "vice" cases discovered by it. The Graphic, agitating for abolition of the Society, stated what has been charged by many another foe of Censor Sumner: that the Society's operatives functioned as agents provocateurs, habitually duped reluctant booksellers and printers into selling contraband books or erotic pictures, and then arrested them. The Society sued. Publisher Macfadden engaged...