Word: ledger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bonds or mortgages-is owned outright by him, his immediate family and his employes, past and present. He retains his Chattanooga paper because it was his first. Once he was tempted to buy and merge other papers. He took over two Philadelphia sheets and made the Public Ledger, which he sold to Magazine Tycoon Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis...
Died. Richard Ledger. London septuagenarian who plunged daily before breakfast into the Serpentine (muddy brooklet in Hyde Park) regardless of rain, sleet, hail, snow or ice. Instead of an overcoat he wore a paper waistcoat. He once announced: "My proudest possession is a letter from King George congratulating me upon my exceptional vigor...
...tapped the ground and from down below where you bury people, oil flowed out. Jackson's bronzed face wrinkled in astonishment. His neighbors told him he was rich. That made him grin. He continued to live in his shack and tend his garden. In far-off Washington a ledger under his name began to show mounting figures of royalty oil profits...
...ledger once the property of the proprietor of the Boston Exchange Coffee House has recently been presented to the Baker Library of the Business School and recalls the part once played by that institution in the social and commercial life of Boston. The edifice, illustrated above, was built in 1808 for the unprecedented sum of half a million dollars as a sort of merchants' exchange. As the Mermaid Tavern was the meeting place of Shakespeare's circle, and the St. James Coffee House the convivial headquarters of the Whigs in the time of Queen Anne, the Exchange Coffee House...
...Democratic fund included bank loans of $500,000, largest in U. S. political history.* Some items in the G. 0. P. ledger were...