Word: pay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only that, said the Grand Jury, but the politicos had the University pay them $14,196 for the full 1936 taxes on the hotel, despite the fact that the University bought the hotel in December, only owed 27 days' taxes, not 365. The New Deal's rufous Galahad, Attorney General Frank Murphy, swore to smite Louisiana sin hip-&-thigh regardless of the prominence of anyone found involved. "This thing has just begun," said his agents in New Orleans...
...nobody denies that he has gone far in his 30 years and promises to go much farther. Twelve years ago he bummed his way across the toll bridge between Vancouver, Wash, and Portland, told the bridge keeper: "I'll come back some day in my Cadillac and pay you that nickel." Last week he crossed the bridge again and lamented: "Here I am in my Cadillac and I find the bridge is free...
...dancer and a show girl from Billy Rose's Aquacade at the New York World's Fair, which the A. F. A. had been supposed to organize, vowed that A. F. A. had double-crossed them in a tiff with Mr. Rose over salary and rehearsal pay...
...rate of earnings, after fixed charges, there was $2.22 available to pay the $3 a share preferred dividend, leaving the common in the red to the tune of 78? per preferred share. In addition Trustee Wardall must decide how to fit 605,964 shares of no par preferred (valued on the books at $30,298,200) and 1,282,938 shares of $5 par common stock into the drug firm's $27,296,031 net worth. So someone must take a licking. SEC will be interested in this reorganization-its first big test of the Chandler...
...Hard-boiled Mr. Groesbeck, who goes his own way, is also different in another respect. He figures that the Administration has the money and the power, that there is more percentage in trading with the New Deal than in bucking it. Last week this notion of his began to pay dividends...