Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obtain publicity for his four Chicago hotels, now in receivership, Ernest ("Ernie") Byfield imported 20 dozen penguin eggs from Capetown, S. A. Promptly they were impounded by the Customs Office. Federal law forbids importation of wild fowl eggs. Wrote Hotelman Byfield, seldom serious, to the Customs House...
...read TIME to obtain facts, which in case of TIME means news...
Career: Educated in the common schools, he attended the Southeast Alabama Agricultural School at Abbeville for two years (1890-92), moving on to the University of Alabama to obtain a law degree (1893). After nine years' private practice he became solicitor for his native county, later serving a term (1906-07) in the Alabama House of Representatives. Quick of mind, sharp of tongue, he had himself chosen prosecuting attorney for his district, a position he held when he attended the Democratic National Convention as a delegate in Baltimore in 1912. As a small-town lawyer, he was nominated...
...national banks can issue their own currency on $740,000,000 worth of pre-War 2% U. S. bonds. For every $1,000 bond and $50 in gold deposited they can get from the Treasury $950 in their own bank notes. The Glass bill simply authorized national banks to obtain paper money on all U. S. bonds for five years. The only limit was the individual capitalization of the banks. National banks as a whole are capitalized at about $1,600,000,000. National bank notes already in . circulation total slightly more than $600,000,000. Therefore under the Glass...
...prices on the weekly rates, with present figures in parentheses, are as follows: 10 meals per week, $6.75 ($7.50); 14 meals per week, $7.75 ($8.50); and 21 meals per week, $9 ($10.50). To obtain the $9 per week rate students will be obliged to sign for it in advance. This is due to the fact that the present maximum plan for counting meals has been abolished...