Word: pay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When you go to the theatre you pay more than 75? to get in to see one show. At the Fair you see hundreds. . . . How many times have you seen a big-league baseball game, a doubleheader, even for an admission price of only...
...Connecticut Reformatory (at 20) and Sing Sing (at 21), Buchalter developed from a small-time loft burglar into the wealthy boss of "protective corporations" in Manhattan's fur, garment, painting, trucking and other trades. His gorillas slugged, knifed, threw lye in the eyes of merchants who did not pay up. Murder, if necessary, did not bother Lepke, the Leopard. When he went in for financing heroin smugglers in a big way, he had already become quite used to having people rubbed out. Two years ago he dropped out of sight, jumped bail after being indicted with his partner, Jake...
Last week the doors were thrown open. After hearing 227 witnesses and studying the reports of 50 auditors, the Grand Jury had indicted Moses Louis Annenberg on ten counts of income-tax evasion. Publisher Annenberg, said the Grand Jury, had wilfully neglected to pay $3,258,809.97 in taxes, plus penalties and interest of $2,289,574.92-a smashing total of $5,548,384.89, which made this the largest criminal tax-evasion case in U. S. history, not excepting Alphonse Capone...
...pay off that debt and to replenish his working capital Grover Whalen last week asked his bondholders to agree: 1) to waive their claim on $2,800,000 of gate receipts (first 40% of gate goes to bondholders); 2) to lend the Fair the $1,250,000 already paid into the sinking fund for the bonds. Meanwhile, the Fair prepared to go to the banks for an additional $750,000 loan. By week's end not quite half (51% necessary) of the bondholders, who have received, besides interest, only one 5% payment on principal, had agreed to the plan...
...Mineola, N. Y., a bookkeeper who last year skipped with a $700 payroll gave himself up to the police. It was his third attempt to get arrested. He had previously given himself up to police in Mexico and Texas, but since the New York authorities would not pay his transportation back to Mineola, he hitchhiked...