Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exemption applied to the President. In Article II, Section I, there is a similar clause which states that the "President shall . . . receive ... a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected." Will you please explain the grounds for your item on the President's income...
...staid columns of the Chicago Journal of Commerce last week appeared a matter-of-fact little item reporting the formation and election of officers of an organization called the Grand Knights of the Hose. Its status was apparently that of a fun division of the big, serious-minded National Association of Petroleum Retailers, trade body for the nation's filling stations. Spontaneously organized...
...largest in the world, one of the best equipped. It was no surprise to anybody last week to learn that bigwigs in the Kremlin had decided to spend some of Russia's new gold on building up her long-neglected navy, but eyebrows shot up over one item in the new naval program...
Newspaper operating profits are figured before interest, taxes and various other charges. Last year after all charges Hearst Publications as a whole earned only $2,372,000, a slight gain over the year before but under the figure for 1934. Not the least startling item in Hearst Publications, Inc.'s accounting is the principal tangible asset-$37,000,000 due from its parent company, Hearst Consolidated Publications. A footnote explains that most of that item once represented money due from another Hearst company. When Hearst Consolidated was formed in 1930, it assumed the debt in part payment for stock...
...performance of Our American Cousin. Eleven hours later he was dead. Last week on the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination famed Collector Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach exhibited in his cluttered Philadelphia office a collection of Lincolniana which he values at more than $1,000,000. An important item was the notes of Dr. Charles S. Taft, the army surgeon who attended Lincoln's last hours...