Word: payments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theory that Big Names can often do Big Things, Joseph E. Barlow, 66-year-old U. S. citizen with a $5,000,000 land claim against the Cuban Government (TIME, April 29), last week hired what he considered two Big Names to help him pull his claim through to payment. One name was Campbell Bascom Slemp, the other was Everett Sanders. Both were once secretaries to President Coolidge. Shrewd men both, Messrs. Slemp and Sanders entered the Barlow case just at a time when it appeared most likely to prove lucrative...
...front rank of U. S. tycoons came Archibald Robertson Graustein, head of the International Paper Co. (now subsidiary of International Paper & Power Co.). Great was Mr. Graustein's place and many were his cares, but he bade dull care adieu, learned Roseland's ropes. He found that payment of 85? entitled him to three dances (three minutes apiece). After these initial dances, men who had brought their own girls danced with them at 5? per dance. But girl-less men (like Mr. Graustein) danced with hostesses, paid at the rate of 35? for three dances...
This privilege will continue to be offered all Faculty members and their guests, according to Professor Grandgent, during the period when the new construction prevents the use of the present property. Upon payment of the sum of $10.00 all Faculty members will be entitled to the full use of the Union with its pool rooms, barber shop, library and living room as well as entertainment while the two rooms reserved this year for the Colonial Club will continue to be set aside for their exclusive use next year...
...standard annual payment under the Dawes Plan is 595 millions. The Young Plan reduces this to $487,600,000. Of this amount, Germany must pay unconditionally in cash and deliveries-in-kind about $158,400,000. The rest will be met by the sale of bonds, financed and guaranteed by an international bank of settlement, sold to private individuals in Europe...
Prominent architects and artists are constantly asked to devote their services to public enterprises like the Chicagio Fair. Generous, many of them invariably do so. Their time is usually sacrificed, they receive no payment. In addition, their schemes are often censored by stodgy directors who insist on conventionalities. But Mr. Geddes and the Chicago Fair architects find their task happy, for between them and the men who hold the moneybags is Dr. Allen Diehl Albert of Evanston, Ill., old family friend, collaborator and spokesman of Rufus Cutler Dawes,* the Fair's president. Long a journalist (Washington Times, Columbus News...