Word: payments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Concert & Variety Performance," strummed the bass viol at a one-night show in their Baraboo, Wis. backyard. Head of the American Circus Corp., which controlled every sizable U. S. circus unit, in 1933 he had been forced to sign over most of the Ringling assets to meet an interest payment on a loan...
...higher learning in correlating and organizing the work in some of the more anarchic courses, or in helping the Freshman to find his footing in Harvard, or in this of that worthy purpose. Presumably some help is given, but few have the face to deny that the cash payment is usually made to facilitate the complete neglect of work (more extra-curricular activity, if you will) and not to direct the poor lost sheep to the proper shelf of the Widener reading room...
...other card bore the simple greeting: "Your laundry bill for the months of October and November now amounts to $17.34. If payment is not made before December 15, no further service will be given...
...Harkness spent the night in the Shanghai customs house, nursing her precious cub from a bottle while the Empress of Russia sailed without her. After friends had helped her post a large cash bond, customs officials permitted Mrs. Harkness to take the baby giant to her hotel, suggested payment of an export tax of $150 Mexican ($45 U. S.). Then, just as she had given up hope, the huffy officials consented to let her take her rare prize home on the President McKinley...
Formerly, P.B.H. was accustomed to make its own drive for funds, but eventually the House made an agreement with the Council whereby the latter would make the only collection and would pay the former a set sum. The Council constitution calls for the payment of 45 per cent of the money collected, but never less than $2,500 or more than $4,000. The Council will probably give an additional sum to the House depending on how well the pledges are collected...