Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enna Jettick. Having spent the last cent he owned in the world before his takeoff, Mechanic Bochkon telephoned collect from Barre to a New York newsman for a weather report and to ask "what them other squareheads are doing?" The "other squareheads" had taken off from Floyd Bennett Field five hours earlier. They were Thor Solberg, 38, who was a motorcycle racer in Norway before coming eight years ago to the U. S.: and Petersen, 35, able radioman who accompanied Amundsen to the North Pole, Byrd to the Antarctic. They too were bound for Oslo. Their plane had been provided...
Reply: It has been proven repeatedly in the present economic crisis that our big financiers are not infallible. . . . By cancellation of international public debts, modern "Shylocks" can collect private foreign loans in a more expedient and profitable manner...
...beautiful girls in the magazine advertising sections came alive last week. Heretofore they have been hired by the illustrators, advertising artists and photographers who immortalize them, chiefly through agents John Robert Powers and Walter Thornton, who collect a commission for being in touch with artists. Counting on their own touch, 300 of Manhattan's 2,000 models-men, women & children-last week broke with the agents, organized a co-operative Models' Guild, complete with lounging rooms...
...debts due the taxpayers of the United States for money loaned to foreign governments are just debts. . . . Will reduction or cancellation bring to the people of the United States an equal or greater benefit than the amount which they may collect from the debts...
...Emmerson Q. Johnson prosecute taxpayers who claimed credit in income tax returns for local taxes not paid. Should appeals fail, the teachers promised to picket business establishments known to be delinquent in taxes. Resentfully they rejected County Treasurer McDonough's suggestion that they call on individual delinquents to collect taxes due. Said Teacher Nell W. Reeser: "The County Treasurer apparently thinks of us as a body of super-gold-diggers, who, by some magic wand, are able to conjure money out of the well-lined but carefully guarded pockets of the rich tax dodgers. But tax collecting...