Word: fines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Against Hayden was the charge that by fine manipulation he had reduced the tax payments of Fred Niblo, director, about $10,000, Ramon Novarro, $8,000, Raoul Walsh, $12,000 and George O'Brien...
While Engineer-President Hoover was designing the machinery of his forthcoming law enforcement investigation the U. S. last week was adjusting itself to the new Jones Act. This law has been professionally nicknamed the Five & Ten by virtue of its five-year penitentiary sentence and $10,000 fine to stiffen Prohibition punishments...
...movement of diplomatic liquor from the Port of Baltimore to Washington's embassies and legations was badly snarled by the Five & Ten. The State Department ruled that non-diplomatic truck drivers were liable to be arrested, and advised foreign representatives to drive their own trucks. Sixty cases of fine wines and liquors consigned to the Siamese legation started the 4O-mile trip in a U. S. truck, with U. S. drivers, accompanied by Luang Debavadi, third secretary of the legation. A block from the destination, Washington police raided the truck, arrested the U. S. drivers under the Five...
...Manhattan, an office which was called a' "consulate" by the. self-styled "Consul," Señor A. Jiminez. When reporters dropped in, the Consul assured them that merchandise shipped from the U.S. to Sonora and other states controlled by the rebels would be subject to a heavy fine unless registered with the consulate. Strolling back to their press rooms, and eying latest despatches from Mexico, the reporters could see at a glance how little founded were the pretensions of the Consul and his government to Power...
...added a faintly Freudian obsession on Alexander's part for Helen of Troy, and fulfillment in the arms of Darius's young and neglected wife. The two leading roles are well enough played by Henry Hull and A. E. Anson, who might have made a very fine play of it hadthe author everdecided what he wanted...