Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boarding the S. S. De Grasse, Editor White said: "That's the longest gangplank in the world.* Three seconds after I cross it I'll be 3,000 miles away from the whole mess." Editor White was bound for Paris, with Mrs. White and a "chunk of money." He was going also to Bayreuth, Germany, to "take a big Wagnerian souse in Parsifal to purge myself of all my sins . . . moral and political...
...usual Royal Assent to the Money Bills passed by Parliament was intoned in archaic Norman French: "Le roi remerci ses bons sujets, accepte leur bénévolence et ainsi le veult!" ["The King thanks his good subjects, accepts their benevolence (grants of money), and so wills...
Walter Clark Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, sailed on the Aquitania for his usual summer trip. His chief concerns: money from the Soviets for oil properties they confiscated from his company's business allies; German extraction of oil from coal; Turkish oil production. Last week, he became president of the Near East Development Co., holders of the U. S.'s 23¾% interest in Mosul fields...
...last week, a small baldish man named Paul Block announced he had bought the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Standard Union. The price was $1,000,000 or thereabouts. For the Standard Union it was a tidy sum, because for all its 65 years of distinguished history, the paper was losing money at the rate of about $25,000 dollars a month...
...These he bought and then sold. But he rejects vigorously the idea that he is a newspaper broker. "It is a good business," he says, "but it is not my business." He sold the Mail, he explains, because neither he nor his partner, Henry L. Stoddard, had the money to carry on. The Journal was a sacrifice to a Hearst scare in Detroit. Neither the News-Scimitar nor the Lancaster paper interested him. The one he bought to settle a debt; the other to give a friend...