Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plain more than 50 years ago in the case of Van Auken vs. U.S., 96 U.S. 366, that the issuance of a check for less than a dollar was not an offense under the act unless there was also the element of intent to circulate the same as money...
...site was excavated, workmen uncovered the steeple of a church which had sunk in the swampy ground. For months giant pumps injected concrete under the foundation, uselessly. The dome is unfinished but the structure has a roof. It is used for automobile shows, concerts. To raise more money the government once issued a special postage stamp. Most helpful have been the labor organizations which, for five years past, have labored slowly toward its completion...
...marry a Tennessee hill girl, one must first have a "homeplace." The $50 a 'legger gave Fayre Jones to keep quiet about dynamiting the Howard house would have sufficed to let him marry Bess Howard, only the money proved counterfeit. What could Jones do but return it? Bess moved to town, began going to "play-parties." Fayre remonstrated but could do nothing until a man to whom Jones turned out to be a brother on the left side, died, leaving a "homeplace." Then Fayre moved in with Bess for his "wife-woman." She gladly planned, by bringing along "child...
Squibb Plan thus would have an income of $10 on the common stock it bought with the retailer's money. If the retailer's purchases come to $600 in the next year, Squibb Plan gets 10% ($60), and another 10% ($10) on the increase in the retailer's purchases. So all told Squibb Plan gets $80. Out of this it pays the retailer 6% ($30) on his money. Of the remaining profit ($50) half goes back to the parent company and the rest ($25) is prorated among the retailers in proportion to the amount of their direct...
...whose torso, "Volupte," is lodged in the Metropolitan Museum. Another was Samilla Love Jameson (married name: Heinzmann) who lately completed a bust of Tammany's 100-year-old Grand Sachem John Richard Voorhis (TIME, Aug. 5). She offered to sell the bust to the highest bidder for money to help the cause. Others were Tamara Loeb, Guggenheim prize winner in sculpture and W. B. Graham, dance critic. All attested to Dreyfuss's sanity and volunteered to post a bond to insure against his becoming a public charge should he be released...