Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...points were: 1) The farm bill, with its board and its money, will put the Government farther into business than ever before "if it means what it says"; 2) It implies "price-fixing . . . barter and sale, buying and borrowing" by the U. S.; 3) To accept the bill's generalities and gag at its only concrete feature-the Debenture Plan-was "nonsense...
After breakfast he was fingerprinted, given No. 10,520 and assigned to the jail pharmacy by Superintendent William L. Peake. Thirty years ago in Kansas, before he shot his foot and got the insurance money that started him in the oil game, Harry Ford Sinclair was a registered pharmacist. Now he was given a white coat and set to rolling quinine pills for sick convicts, of which there were seven in the jail last week...
...York's "Jimmy" has a growing fondness for things money can buy. As William F. Kenny was ready to give his last of a multi-million nickels to help his friend Alfred Emanuel Smith, so Publisher Paul Block (Newark Star-Eagle, Brooklyn Standard Union, Toledo Blade, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Duluth Herald) seldom counts the change where his friend. Mayor Walker, is concerned. The Mayor spends more nights and mornings in the Block suite at the Ritz than he does in his personal bed on St. Luke's place...
...anything untoward in the fact that the large crinkly letters were embossed on the stationery of "Foreign Minister Lamidaeff, of the Kingdom of Poldavia." They saw nothing strange in the fact that Poldavians were in financial difficulties, and they found Minister Lamidaeff most thoughtful in not asking for money, but merely for an expression of "moral support" from the Deputies in his campaign to aid Poldavian sufferers. "We believe that our interests were betrayed at the Peace Conference," wrote Poldavian Lamidaeff. "and we appeal to you as a member of the French Parliament to do your utmost to help...
...distillery business with the approach of prohibition (1919), Mr. Ungerleider tried to retire, found the burden of leisure too heavy to endure. He began to play the market and quickly discovered the expenses of that pastime. He soon decided that only the insider had a chance to make money on the Street so, in 1919, he bought his seat on the Exchange, continued in his new, as in his old, business, to be on the sober side...