Word: payments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expenditures, exclusive of relief and recovery, of less than 4 billions a year. In order to do so it has juggled its bookkeeping. One trick is to omit from the totals such items as pay ments to trust funds, certain District of Columbia expenditures, half the annual sinking fund payment for the Soldiers' Bonus. These items are furtively listed only in the appendix of the budget report. The apparent saving from this source has been $188,000,000 to $238,000,000 a year. "This," sarcastically declared the country's only living ex-President...
...article opens with a reference to Yale's contract with the Atlantic Refining Company for the sale of football broadcasting rights, saying that this act brought out into the open the whole question of professionalism. The next step is judged to be the direct payment of players by the oil company...
...with Anthony Fokker to sell military planes disguised as commercial types to U. S. S. R. Young Roosevelt was to form a company which was to receive a $25,000 retaining fee from Fokker. Son Elliott personally was handed four $1,000 and two $500 bills as a down payment and gave a receipt for them. The 50 planes which it hoped to sell Russia were to be priced to yield $20,000 profit apiece, half of which was to go to Elliott or his firm. Salesman Roosevelt showed a model of the planes (Lockheed "Electras" modified for easy conversion...
Undoubtedly the controversy waged this week over football players and the payment of tutoring school bills has been exaggerated far out of its natural proportion. More arguing over whether the H.A.A. is at present paying the bills is motivated simply by vindictiveness or love of scandal. The facts are these: the H.A.A. has in the past indirectly rewarded with free tickets the tutoring schools for tutoring athletes; this practice has now been stopped...
Williams J. English Jr. '37, has been chosen by Aldrich Durant, 02, Business Manager of the University, to be director of the enterprise and will act as agent for the College in the operation of the lot. Ownership, the payment of taxes, and ultimate control of the space still resides in Lehman Hall however...