Word: fee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Williams, a college graduate (North Carolina) who served in the Army for three years during World War II, reportedly confessed that in his 30 months as visa clerk for the Hong Kong consulate, he had collected about $10,000 in bribes in return for visas, usually in "fees" up to $200 above the small official U.S. visa fee. Visa seekers who did not come across with the bribe were kept waiting for as long as two years in some cases...
This gift includes the fee of his lecture on "Poetry and Drama," the first Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture, royalties from reprinting the lecture in the Atlantic Monthly, and rights from the University's publication of Eliot's lecture in book form this month...
...move, explained E. B. Gates, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, is designed to preserve both the beauty of the lawn, and the grass itself. If the present action is not effective, 'Cliffe cyclists will have to pay a $.25 fee to reclaim their bicycles...
Some British moppets will soon be leaving for a holiday in Switzerland. A Swiss editor recently printed a reproduction of one of Winston Churchill's copyrighted paintings and sent off a check for ?2. "the usual fee paid to Swiss artists." An answer came from Churchill's lawyers: "insufficient." The editor then offered to pay Churchill ?200 if he would use the money to give underprivileged youngsters a Swiss holiday. Churchill agreed...
...sold calico and plowshares to support his widowed mother. Later he read law in a Terre Haute law office, slept on a wooden bench in the office. When he started practice, in Shelbyville, Ill., he was glad to trudge 20 miles to earn a $5 fee. He did not have to trudge long. A Congressman at 36, Uncle Joe spent 23 terms in the House, four of them as Speaker. But somewhere along the line, Uncle Joe got out of step...