Word: payments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Congress has already passed legislation approving in principle the payment of each reserve officer at a yearly rate equivalent to one-twelfth of what would be his yearly salary in the naval rank which he has been certified as fit to hold in time of war. Thus a merchant officer who would be made a Lieutenant Commander in war-time will receive $250 per year during his whole reservist period, and, in addition, regulation pay during periods devoted exclusively to "training duty...
...smuggled in on Pullman trips from Canada, could be secured at $6 for each quart bottle; 3) meet the rich citizen at an appointed place; 4) deposit in his automobile four cases of real old shoes, bricks, rocks, broken glass and garbage; 5) take from his hand $285 in payment thereof; 6) vanish...
...have attended at least eight such cases in the past three months. I make my living from my work and am not a professional philanthropist. Therefore my services should be paid for. Yet not one of the eight whom I have attended has responded to my request for the payment of a fee for services rendered; nor, to my knowledge, has any hospital to which I have sent them received a penny. Yet I am sure the majority of these persons have received compensation from insurance companies for injuries received. A month ago I attended a man by the roadside...
...career before the public eye. Governor Jackson admitted that the check was authentic, but said it represented a business transaction and had no political significance. He said that he had sold a "valuable saddle' horse" (i.e. The Senator) to Mr. Stephenson and that the $2,500 was in payment for the horse and accessory equipment. Investigators pursued the case and found evidence that Mr. Stephenson had purchased the horse at no great bargain...
...being all-important, Dr. Millspaugh tightened that screw first. For example, His Highness the Sipahdar-i-Azam, onetime Prime Minister, was pressed for payment of millions in back taxes. Soon His Highness committed suicide, first proclaiming that his sole rea son for this act was "unendurable American extortion." Other nobles paid. Progress was made -slowly...