Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...removed when pretty Polly Walker, in a fetching fluster, confessed: "That's my name, Billie, and my daddy's was the same, Billie." Her confession was made on first meeting Jackson (in the previously popular non-musical version known as "Broadway") Jones. He had inherited money from his uncle and Billie was his uncle's secretary. For commendable reasons, Billie wished Jackson not to sell the avuncular corporation, a chewing gum one; she urged him to keep on with the business himself in defiance of protesting "trusts." And this...
...bankers went out like a lamb. Scarcely had the delegates assembled when Representative Louis T. McFadden, chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency, introduced the mooted question of credit and the war of the banks and the bulls. He warned that the Federal Reserve policy of tight money might "produce a business slump without intending to do so." On the other hand, he warned that relaxing the policy might result in more credit going "directly into the speculative loans." Between the two horns of the dilemma, he sought a legislative solution. Perhaps the law might be amended...
...chaser's enemy is the claim agent who tries to get the injured person to disclaim damages, or take at most a small money settlement. Insurance companies have such agents, and street car companies, railroads, taxicab systems...
People who have been solicited for money to support, treat and cure lepers last week received a worthwhile shock. Few have seen lepers. They have read about lepers in the Bible and medieval histories; they have heard doctors and missionaries tell of the silvery horror. But it has been easy to believe that science was curing leprosy, that money to fight the disease was not badly needed...
...leprosarium at Carville, La. At Culion, Philippine Islands, is another, and at Molokai, Hawaii, a third. In memory of the late General Leonard Wood, his friends are soliciting $2,000,000 for a leprosy hospital and clinic at Culion. They have a little more than half the needed money; are prodding the country for the rest...