Word: payer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Founded in 1861, the Chicago & Alton claims to have been first to introduce dining and sleeping cars. Its main terminals are Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City. The road was a prosperous dividend-payer for many a year, but after E. H. Harriman purchased it from T. D. Blackstone it grew more mortgages than it could carry. In 1889 it acquired a $45,000,000 mortgage, on which it has steadily paid interest. In 1900 came a $22,000,000 mortgage, held by Farmers Loan & Trust Co., Manhattan, and in 1912 an $18,000,000 mortgage held by United States Mortgage...
...while president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. John D. Sherman wrote 24 magazine articles on home equipment and kindred topics. Last week the Federal Trade Commission, investigating activities of public utilities companies, discovered that Mrs. Sherman had received $600 apiece for these articles. The payer was the National Electric Light Association, publicity organization for U. S. power companies. Testifying before the commission, Mrs. Sherman said that from 1924 to 1928 the N. E. L. A. had contributed $80,000 to the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Last week the Federation Directors de cided...
...Hoover's favorite word). Also, patience and discretion will be required in large quantities to discriminate between public works needed now, public works needed tomorrow, and public works which will never be needed at all. The last category -joy of the pork barrel experts, sorrow of the tax-payer-is what will be watched out against by hard-headed businessmen who may suspect the job reserve idea of being "utopian...
...give my divorced wife 10,000 francs a month [$400]," said M. Caillaux, "I am probably the largest alimony payer in France. Yet, consider. What I give is but a present to her. The Court only ordered a fraction of that amount...
...commission has been considering a survey of the school system for several weeks, particularly with reference to school expenditures. The upkeep of the schools in Boston takes a great share of the tax payer's dollar, and it will be Professor Cummings' task to determine the cost of surveying every part of the Boston school system, its expenditures and defects, with the hope that it may be corrected...