Word: payments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worse than that of Loeb and Leopold, that he was unregenerate, that in his cell he had skinned alive a kitten. From jail Pomeroy hired a lawyer, filed a $5,000 libel, was awarded damages of $1 which he never collected, preferring to hold the court order for payment as a "vindication." In his cell he learned several languages, wrote poetry, was called "Grandpa" by other convicts. In 1923 he was supposed to have speculated by mail in the stock market, plunging on Moon Motors, Ventura Oil. When he left jail last week, he carried with...
...gambling in other business transactions. The purchase and quick resale of stocks is not any more gambling than the purchase and quick resale of lots. . . . The amount of margin upon which a man trades does not determine the gambling element. ... A man can buy stock for a small cash payment . . . and there is no reason to call him a gambler because he sells the stock shortly after at a profit. ... If the trading in stocks . . . is immoral, then the church should eliminate from her membership the heads of stock exchange houses, clerks, bookkeepers . . . the men and women...
Last week Poland made its final payment...
...average private car. without special equipment, costs from $100,000 upwards. Its operation about the country by a non-railroad-owner requires payment of 25 full fares and as many Pullman surcharges. If the car is attached to a limited train. 25 extra-fares are added...
...payments will be vicarious and doubtful. Germany has only been able to pay the Dawes contributions by borrowing on a large scale, simultaneously keeping down wages. You cannot continue the two processes indefinitely. ... I observe that during the two years when it was suggested that we do not receive reparations, there was no suggestion that the United States was not to receive any payment on her debt. This seemed rather a one-sided transaction...