Word: fees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practice of taking a book out overnight and keeping it for a few days. In an effort to keep books on the shelves, librarian McNiff is sending out messengers to collect volumes that are not in by 9 a.m. The 75 cent charge, McNiff insists, is a messenger fee, and not a fine. This represents a good idea in a good cause and has been a success, certainly financially. But there are other reasons for the books not being available when they are wanted...
During Curley's term, however, there existed an "abatements racket," whereby certain property owners were given rebates on their assessment by dubious re-evaluations. If a landlord wishes to get an abatement on his assessment in Boston, he applies to the City Assessor's office and pays the fee demanded. Whether or not the abatement is granted, that fee is attached to the property owner's assessment from that year on; the money apparently goes directly to the Board of Assessors each year. That's one sources of excess intake in the Assessment Division. But, there is a further explicitly...
...satisfied. He also has an almost hypnotic power to impress, persuade and convince the toughest tycoon. Even the American Tobacco Co.'s late George Washington Hill, who used to frighten advertising men out of their wits, wilted under Loewy's gentle suasion. He paid him the whopping fee of $50,000 just for designing a new white package for Lucky Strike in 1942 ("Lucky Strike green has gone...
Twice a year, every student wonders as he pays his medical care bill, "What happens to my $15?" A student council committee tried to answer this last year but found it impossible to discover the disposition of the average fee...
...play will be presented Monday, October 31 from 2 to 4 p.m. in Fogg Large Lecture Room. No admission fee will be charged...