Word: pay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...claim was based on a 400-year-old Spanish grant bounding the property ''as far as a dog's bark could be heard." Cuban courts and the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee have upheld his demand for compensation. The Cuban Government has refused to pay...
...released on $500 bail, furnished by his official accusers. The charge against him was grand larcency. Senora Vincenta Garcia had bought some lots from him, had failed to pay for them. When he sought to recover them, she charged she was being cheated. The Judicial Police advised him that "Cuba would feel happier if he would return to the U. S. and stay there, thus avoiding trouble and unpleasantness...
...call into an October conference the big users of first-class mail, particularly direct-mail advertisers. Quickly spread the firm belief that the Department would recommend as a deficit-extinguisher an increase in first-class postage from 2? to 2½ or 3?. Argument for the increase: Citizens pay the deficit anyway, either in higher postage rates or U. S. taxes...
...used to be a publisher himself (Concord Evening Monitor): "I do not see how we can increase the first-class rates, since we made the mistake of reducing them after the War." The Senator objected to the fact that religious, fraternal and scientific periodicals-some 6,000 of them-pay the post office for distribution only one-third the rate required of commercial publications. Naming names, he declared: "There is no reason why the Christian Science Monitor or the Elks Magazine or the National Geographic magazine, all of which are big moneymakers, should have better rates than other commercial publications...
Like everyone else. Senator Moses recognized that the congressional franking privilege and the "penalty" mail of the U. S. departments inflates the deficit. His remedy: "Congress and the departments ought to have special stamps which they would pay for the same as others. The stamps used by members of Congress would be charged up to the expenses of the legislative branch and the executive stamps would be paid for out of appropriations for the respective executive departments...