Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money cannot be handled in the dark without stirring some people's suspicions. To dissipate suspicion, President Hoover, by executive order, last week, lifted the curtain of secrecy from the Treasury's income tax operations, sufficiently to reveal the important details of all tax refunds above $20,000. It was a move long demanded by progressives and Democrats in Congress and as long opposed by Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon. The White House ordered the new policy; the Treasury obediently executed...
This constitutes the second round in the controversy, the first having featured Mr. Kent's return to Marcus and co. of a check for $500 of the prize money on the grounds that the terms of the awards clearly signified Mr. Bok's intention of honoring the author or designer of the advertisements rather than the firm using them...
...Lowes, Professor of English, is given a sum of money to prepare an edition of the Gutch Memorandum Book in the British Museum, and to continue work on Chaucer and Coleridge, with the help of a research assistant...
Matches. A shrewd bargainer is Swedish Match Co. To obtain exclusive match concessions, it has lent money, bought securities from many impoverished governments. But Swedish Match is interested in matches, not money. And Swedish Match has an active and able financing company in the form of Kreuger & Toll Co., largest stockholder in Swedish Match, headed by Matchmaker Ivar Kreuger (TIME, Oct. 1). Last week, therefore, through a syndicate headed by Lee, Higginson & Co., Kreuger & Toll offered $50,000,000 debentures to acquire securities now owned by potent Swedish Match...
...Author Bryan Hamilton Connolly, aged 14, pondered. The manuscript of his unfinished novel, The Marble Coffin, lay before him, and he had just written: "Your kids are being held for $500,000 ransom. Beginning tomorrow we will cut an ear off each one every day until the money is sent to us. When the ears are gone we will cut off their toes one by one." It was an effective piece of writing, but how would normal parents react to such a letter? Author Connolly, recalling the existence of his nine-year-old brother, had an inspiration. When Author Connolly...