Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probably easier for a man to demonstrate his worth in sales work than any where else, because he actually brings in business to his company, and to the man who brings in business and makes money, the salary increases are apt to come with more frequency than to the man whose ability as a profit maker is not so obvious...
...have won the principle. The administration has recognized that more money is needed...
...money, said Cardinal Dubois, was a gift from the French clergy. They had derived it from the special contributions known as "Peter's Pence." What may be called the underlying theory of "Peter's Pence" has been that these donations would supplant the income lost by the Pope in 1870, when the Papal lands and corresponding revenues were seized by the Italian State. Today, however, the State has promised, in the newly signed Italo-Papal treaty & concordat (TIME, Feb. 18), to indemnify the Holy See for its losses of 1870 by a cash payment...
...crashed the Fitzsimmons-Jeffries fight (1899) by exchanging a basket of stage money lor a basket of tickets. He saw the Jimmy Gardiner-Tommy Devine fight in a Milwaukee Armory (1903) from a steel girder to which he strapped himself early in the morning before the fight. He crashed the Dempsey-Gibbons fight in Shelby, Montana (1923), by riding into the hot arena in a covered ice wagon...
...announcement, however, trading continued at twice its normal rate. Commodity markets in general have been exceedingly active. On the Coffee and Sugar Exchange, for instance, a seat last week sold for $31,000, a new peak price. It was thought that Federal Reserve attacks on Wall Street were diverting money to the commodities, though this theory did not well coincide with Wall Street's recently renewed activity...