Word: fees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Expenses during the session of the assembly, which will be limited strictly to 75 members, will be about $1.50 per day. A conference fee of $2.00 will be charged...
...that what the Democratic Party needs is slogans, mottoes, jingles, limericks, rhymes. They had decided that the way to get slogans, mottoes, jingles, limericks, rhymes, is to have a contest, give prizes. They had decided that the most economical way to raise money for prizes is to charge a fee for entering the contest. They had decided that $100 is fair for first prize in a slogan, motto, jingle, etc., contest; $50 for second prize; $5 for third prize-total $155 for prizes. If the entrance fee were set at $1, the contest would be practically sure...
That Department was convinced that the women Democrats had meant no wrong, but could only conclude that, in their enthusiasm for slogans, mottoes, etc., the Women Democrats had failed to realize that their entrance-fee-and-prize-money scheme constituted what is known as a lottery. Lotteries, as everyone knows, are prohibited from the U. S. mails by law. The Post Office Department would gladly refrain from prosecuting if the women Democrats would cancel the entrance fee feature of their contest...
About 1820, becoming a member of the stock exchange meant an initiation fee of $25. By the end of the Civil War the initiation was $3,000. By 1869 membership was bought at the market price of a seat (there were 1,060 in all). The first year this went into effect the price of seats jumped from $3,000 to $7,500. In 1879 the number of seats was raised to 1,100, as at present. Since then there has been only the vast increase in security values and public participation to account for the rise in seat prices...
...will not?was the opinion of Senator Capper of Kansas, publisher of the Topeka Daily Capital and Capper's Weekly (farmers'tabloid), who last week visited President Coolidge at Rapid City. Senator Capper believes that the equalization fee is essential to farm relief, hopes that a compromise bill can be agreed upon 'by the Administration and the McNary-Haugenites...