Word: honoraria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abraham ("Abe") Ruef, 71, onetime (1901-07) "Curly Boss" of San Francisco; in San Francisco. From police court lawyer, he rose to head the Union Labor Party, secured the election of a popular musician as mayor, established headquarters in a French restaurant, "The Pup," where he blandly collected huge honoraria from those wanting special privilege. Confronted by evidence, Ruef fled, was caught, finally convicted of bribery. Paroled in 1915 from San Quentin, where he taught Bible classes, he entered real estate, piled up a comfortable legal fortune...
...current modern poetry of American authorship, together with the outfitting of a small room in the main building for the exhibition and study of the same. The second gift consisted of a substantial sum of money the annual interest from which was to be used to cover the honoraria for lecturers who were to be invited to give talks several times a year on the general subject of American poetry...