Word: fee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Establishment of a $100 million authority in the Export-Import Bank to underwrite, for a fee, the transfer risks on new foreign securities. This would insure U.S. investors against the rise & fall of currency values...
Totty is the answer to a Nieman Fellow's prayer. She knows where to find an apartment, how to corral baby-sitters, locations of good restaurants, and answers to the other 11,999 questions she gets the first day. And she has a small fee with the 12,000th answer--to coerce an outgoing newsman into putting a nickel into her parking meter...
...said, without indicating just where in tarnation McCarthy figured in the RFC hearings, that he had once watched Strandlund cash checks for McCarthy after the Senator had dropped money on the horses, and then tear up the checks. (Strandlund paid McCarthy a hefty $10,000 author's fee for a housing pamphlet in 1948, when McCarthy was vice chairman of Congress' joint housing committee...
...medicine. With no official machinery available to prove his client's innocence, the New London defense attorney went to the only man he knew who could help him: Dr. R. B.H. (for Rutherford Berchard Hayes) Gradwohl, a young St. Louis physician who picked up an occasional extra fee performing autopsies for the city coroner. Would Dr. Gradwohl, asked the lawyer, be interested in performing a private autopsy to save an innocent man's life? Dr. Gradwohl, who had spent five postgraduate years in Germany, Austria, England and France studying forensic (i.e., legal) medicine, said he would...
...Friend. Witness Ross Bohannon took the stand. A Texas lawyer, he testified that in trying to get an RFC loan for the Texmass Petroleum Co. in 1949, he talked with Merl Young. Young, he swore, offered to help in return for a fee of $10,000 cash-plus $7,500 a year for the next ten years. Young denied the story, said it was Bohannon who had talked about a big fee, and declared that he hadn't even been tempted. New Hampshire's Charles W. Tobey intervened...