Word: payments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which Miss Nichols' personal profit has been $5,000000.† And last week, after four years of bickering, a deal for the moving picture rights was completed. The terms were not made public. The Famous Players-Lasky Corp. supposedly gave Miss Nichols a huge cash payment and a percentage of receipts...
...sang "with unusual effect" in churches. All the time she wanted to start a school of her own, a school to "make colored girls plain and decent." She began in a rented house with five girls. She got five dollars for singing at a festival and made the first payment on the site of her present Bethune-Cookman College, at that time a dump-pile. Her girls cleared away the rubbish to give the-workmen room. In 1905 the school was chartered. In 1914 Mrs. Bethune bought a farm to "teach the girls sense," and to raise vegetables...
...major discrepancy was noted in Mr. Gould's story. In referring to the $100,000, he carefully used the words "the company" or "my partners"; whereas in 1917 he had said "I" and "me" before Justice McKeown of New Brunswick. It was because Justice McKeown had called the payment of the $100,000 "an act of bribery" that the Senate committee was investigating Mr. Gould's right to hold his seat. The hearings closed last week to be resumed on Jan. 24. No recommendations were made...
...Shortly after the announcement the President and Board of Trustees ordered the curtailing of athletics. Funds formerly devoted to sports will serve to establish a new chair of theology. Presumably this drastic measure arose from a recognition of the fact that flagrant breaches of the amateur code like the payment of outstanding athletes are caused by the disproportionate emphasis which has been placed upon intercollegiate football in the colleges. Yet no measure could be more illogical...
Great Britain last week made on time its eighth semi-annual payment of War debt interest (this time $67,950,000), and its fourth annual payment of principal (this time $25,000,000), $92,950,000 in all. Seven other nations: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Esthonia, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, made payments totaling $3,568,418 more...