Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This afternoon from 1 to 5 p.m., visitors may view the displays at Longfellow House, 105 Brattle Street, without payment of the usual admission charges...
...entrenched "that a police officer who is too diligent in enforcing the liquor laws in the best dry areas can lose his job." In one county, he found, a $4,500-a-year sheriff was offered $18,000 for protection. In another he discovered bootleg liquor stores that guarantee payment of customers' fines if they are arrested with their purchases within a three-mile "safety zone." Said Mathis: "Gangsterism is a fact...
Hurd also said that "high-pressure" techniques on the part of the Yearbook resulted in many freshmen paying a one dollar down-payment for the Yearbook, under the impression that it was part of the price of the Freshman Register...
...first, according to Hurd, the Yearbook threatened to send books home to parents C.O.D. to assure payment, but later, after speaking with representatives from the Union Committee, it made arrangements for refunds for those who did not want a Yearbook...
There are other compensations, some of them strange. Now that he is a celebrity expecting a large sum of money, a cab driver, a tailor and a restaurant have refused to take anything at all in payment for their services. From his savings, Van Doren has splurged mildly on clothes and an extra round of Christmas gifts for his family. The only whim he plans to indulge is to replace his 1948 Studebaker with a 190 SL Mercedes-Benz. He will probably invest the rest of the money...