Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council will probably have to cut down on several of its planned conferences and reports if it does not collect more of its pledged funds than it has already, president Larry R. Johnson '58 reported last night...
When U.S. marshals attempted to collect the money, Pennsylvania's Governor Simon Snyder deployed militiamen around the state treasurer's house and appealed to newly elected President Madison for support. But Madison replied in terms that left Pennsylvania no choice but to pay $18,000 to Olmstead, by then 83, and to call off the militia. Said Madison...
...Which is locked up in irrevocable trusts. Principal from 60% of Cousin Fred's estate is payable to his descendants 21 years after the deaths of a dozen individuals including Billy, who can never collect a cent of it. Billy's three children can, if they live long enough...
Last week the Congress also: ¶ Voted in the House to give Songstress Jane Froman $138,205 for crippling injuries suffered in a Pan American World Airways crash at Lisbon in 1943 while she was on a troop-entertaining mission. The amount of damages that Miss Froman could collect from the airline was limited to $9,050 (including lost baggage) under the Warsaw Convention of 1929, an international treaty imposing a ceiling of $8,300 on allowable damages for physical injuries suffered in international flights unless the claimant can prove willful misconduct. By thus voting public funds to correct...
...connoisseurs, he reached a settlement with the Treasury by which, as a $3,360,000 installment on his inheritance tax, he will hand over Hardwick Hall, one of the finest Elizabethan mansions in existence, together with its 934-acre park, and eight major works of art from the Chatsworth collection, including works by Rembrandt, Memling. Holbein and Van Dyck. The paintings will go to British museums. Hardwick Hall will be administered by the National Trust, and be open to the public four days a week, though the 86-year-old Dowager Duchess of Devonshire may live there for the rest...