Word: paid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First, a bit of criticism: it is contended by a recent statement printed in the Dallas Morning News that the United States Senate, four years or so ago, appropriated from public funds, $7,500, to be paid to Senator Green of Vermont. It is contended that this amount was voted to the Senator that he might pay his surgeon and doctor bills incident to treatment of a serious disability received when hit by a stray bullet fired by warring bootleggers on historic Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. I am satisfied that this is a correct statement of fact...
Removed-Eric von Stroheim as director of Queen Kelly, starring Gloria Swanson. He was paid $75,000 for the story and his direction of it so far. Director Edmund Goulding took his place...
...retail price of a box of matches is fixed by law at two lei (1.18?) for 1929, but after July, 1930 will be jacked up to three lei (1.77?). Royalties approximating $3,000,000 annually will be paid to the State, and the Trust agrees to retain Rumanian workmen in the local match factories. Legislation embodying these momentous arrangements was voted, last week, by the Rumanian Chamber of Deputies...
...been cashing at the Bank Generale, in Bucharest, large checks drawn against the Royal Exchequer, in virtue of His Highness' former authority as Keeper of the Privy Purse. Officials of the Bank Generale all know that the Prince has ceased to hold that office. Yet the chief teller paid the checks on sight, paid...
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