Word: pay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dead in an unspeakable condition. Pomeroy, then 15, was arrested, tried, sentenced to be hanged. The whole East seethed with outrage against his sadism. After many a delay Governor Rice, because of his youth, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. On Sept. 7, 1876 Pomeroy entered Charlestown Prison to pay a penalty not yet finished. A violent prisoner, always attempting escape, he was moved to Concord in 1880 in chains and handcuffs, was returned to Charlestown...
Last week the British Museum was able to announce: that Mrs. Noyes had sold her manuscript privately for ?32,476 ($157,500); that the money had been advanced by Mr. Morgan; that if the British Museum should raise ?32,476 within a year and pay it to Mr. Morgan they could keep the Luttrell Psalter forever; that anyhow they can keep it for a year on loan...
...payments will be vicarious and doubtful. Germany has only been able to pay the Dawes contributions by borrowing on a large scale, simultaneously keeping down wages. You cannot continue the two processes indefinitely. ... I observe that during the two years when it was suggested that we do not receive reparations, there was no suggestion that the United States was not to receive any payment on her debt. This seemed rather a one-sided transaction...
Last fortnight he directed from his sick room the ratification by the Chamber of Deputies of a bill approving the bitterly contested debt settlement by which France agrees to pay the U. S. some $6,847,674,104.17 over 62 years. Presently the Senate approved the bill 300 to 292, and President Gaston Doumergue signed a decree enacting the debt settlement into law. Not until then did the stern old "Lion of Lorraine" feel free to dash upon paper the final resignation he has so long wanted to sign...
Howard University was founded at Washington, D. C. in 1867 by General Oliver Otis Howard who commanded the Union Army in that neighborhood. The medical school, established soon thereafter, includes white and colored students. For almost 50 years the school had little money. Teachers received little pay. Then the Rockefeller General Education Board gave it $250,000, individual whites about $80,000 and Negroes a little more than $170,000. President of Howard is Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, Negro...