Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though John had stoutly denied accepting money for negotiating any purchase of Government surpluses, witnesses testified that he had acted as an agent in a deal involving more than $40,000 worth of electrical equipment from the War Assets Administration. A Washington lawyer named George A. Chadwick Jr. announced that John had been paid $13,000-although he felt that John was not entitled to $8,032.50 of it. Chadwick complained that this sum represented 1,700,000 francs which Maragon had simply pocketed after his employers "entrusted" him with it in France...
Entertaining Accounts. The biggest surprise concerned money. John has been raking it in with both hands. His Verley
...Embarrassment. California's grandiose Proposition 4, voted in as an amendment to the state constitution last November, had not only boosted pensions for the aged to $75 a month, but made the money delightfully easy to get. It lowered the age limit from 65 to 63 and ended the embarrassment of proving pauperism; old folks could have $3,500 in real estate, a car, furniture and jewelry, $1,500 in liquid assets, be supported in part by relatives, and still qualify...
...state's troubles were largely due to initiative 172, a pension measure put over last autumn by the Communist-dominated Washington Pension Union and its president, a crafty, smooth-talking party-liner named William J. Pennock, 33. Under its terms the old folks not only get money for mortgage payments, rent, tax assessments, insurance, food & clothing, but free medical & dental care, free hospitalization, free home-nursing service and free medicines, glasses and artificial limbs...
...feared it would lose money the third quarter too, so it was pulling in its horns. Last week, besides scheduling a ten-day shutdown to let sales catch up with production, K-F sold two iron and steel plants at Phoenixville, Pa. Buyer: the Barium Steel Corp. Price: more than...