Word: fee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June 7, 1920, Simmons contracted with E. Y. Clarke to increase the membership. As Imperial Kleagle, he was to receive $8 of the $10 admission fee, and $2 for every member added to a local Klan within six months after its organization. He agreed to pay all expenses of the central office and $75 a week to Simmons. When Clarke's system was perfected, $4 of the original fee went to the local Kleagle, $1 to the King Kleagle or state sales-manager, $0.50 to the Grand Goblin, or head of the local Klan. The remaining $4.50 went...
...Whether or not former custodian Thomas W. Miller (who succeeded Mr. Palmer as Alien Property Custodian) and former Attorney General Daugherty conspired to receive a portion of the $441,000 as a bribe, not simply as a fee. "Conspiracy" must be proved...
Everyone knows that, if he remains awake until midnight, he may make a long distance call at one-fourth the price of the daytime charge. If he calls between 8:30 p. m. and midnight, the fee is one-half the day rate. That is, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (the Bell System) considers daytime to range from 4:30 a. m. to 8:30 p. m., evenings from 8:30 p. m. to midnight, and night from midnight to 4:30 a. m. Thus charge for certain calls from Manhattan...
Mayor Kendrick and the exposition managers need fee-paying and, according to Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent, graft-paying concessionaires. These, in turn, will come only if they may operate on Sundays, the most profitable amusement day of the week...
...South and the Corn Belt. In the night before the voting, a plan was hatched. It sounded good: $150,000,000 was to be set aside as a revolving fund to aid in the marketing of farm products. This was to be paid for by an equalization fee. But to lure the Dixie Senators, one-half of this amount was to be used for cotton marketing, and their equalization fee was to be deferred for three years. This alliance was supposed to be potent enough to bring at least a tie vote. Thereupon, Vice President Dawes would probably cast...