Word: payments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Attorney Ceneral prosecuting a liquor case rhetorically asks, "Who is stronger, the bootleg ring or the state of Rhode Island?" only to have the jury return a verdict of not guilty. And to pitch the question on a more adventurous plane, even now a governmental quibble arises concerning payment of duty on pictures taken by Byrd at the North Pole. Thus does the energy and initiative of aerial explorers whittle down to $12 due the customs authorities...
...nomination. But the rest of the Connecticut delegation was for Wood, and the incident cost King his place as National Committeeman. His last appearance in the public eye was when he was indicted three weeks ago with Harry Micajah Daugherty and Thomas W. Miller for conspiracy in securing the payment of $7,000,000 to a Swiss corporation by the Alien Property Custodian - as a reward for which they were supposed to have received $441,000 (TIME, May 17). Dying, the former undertaker's clerk, left besides his family, the history of a unique career, a home in Bridgeport...
Loan. Premier Averescu of Roumania announced that the Italian government has "voluntarily and unconditionally" offered to the Roumanian government a loan of 200,000,000 lire (some $8,000,000), to be amortized in 15 years (Italy is given 62 years to make part payment of the U. S. loan to her). Italy will get 8% interest...
...accused men, and a check for $50,000, which was divided between Smith and King. Miller and the Germans were named in an indictment brought last year in regard to the same case. The new indictment omits the Germans but brings in Mr. Daugherty, who it is alleged certified payment of the claim of the Germans, so that once more the finger of accusation points at the Ohioan. It was alleged some time ago that $40,000 of the supposed $391,000 bribe in Liberty bonds were traced to Mr. Daugherty's bank account in his brother...
...chief bids: 1) The bid of the Muscle Shoals Fertilizer Co. and Muscle Shoals Power Distributing Co, comes from a group of southern power companies of which the Alabama Power Co. is the chief. It provides for payment of $136,330,000 on the present dam No. 2 during the 50-year lease, or of $181,348,000 if dam No. 3 is also built. It allows the Government to take over the equipment in time of war. It guarantees 10,000 tons a year of nitrogen fertilizer in three years, 20,000 tons annually in six years...