Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disturbed children, we must expect to pay the penalty which these children's adult years bring upon us in the form of robberies, murders, etc. Execution of the offender only gets us off the hook. Our penalty in Barbara Graham's case ought to have been our payment of her Aboard and keep in a prison for life...
Last week Executive Director Frederick Bell of the National Auto Dealers asked Federal Reserve Chairman William McC. Martin to join him in asking Congress to restore the old wartime Regulation W, which until 1952 required 1/3 down payment for autos, no more than 18 months to pay the balance. Martin was cool to the idea, but Bell wants the Government to slap on such controls again...
...Dixon-Yates line at the middle of the Mississippi River, so that the privately owned company could furnish the Tennessee Valley and the Atomic Energy Commission with needed reserves of electrical energy. Cannon & Co. sluiced off the $6,500,000 from Dixon-Yates and authorized it as a down payment on the Fulton TVA plant...
...Schlesinger (TIME, Feb. 21), whose mother is Countess Mona Bismarck, remarried widow of Utilities Tycoon Harrison Williams, and whose father is Henry J. Schlesinger, retired Milwaukee industrialist. Said Van Cleef & Arpels : Schlesinger had given Cinemactress Linda Christian, estranged wife of Cinemactor Tyrone Power, jewels worth $132,500, made partial payment with a $100,000 check that bounced. Unable to collect from Schlesinger, Van Cleef slapped a suit on Linda in an effort to get back the jewels...
...Cleef & Arpels. Then Hegener, trying to recheck some details with Preger, reached him at a St. Louis hotel, found that he had not been in Dallas and listened in horror while the real Preger told him that Mrs. Williams had no interest in the oil properties. McCulloch stopped payment on the check. Thus, when Van Cleef & Arpels tried to deposit Schlesinger's check, it bounced -and Hogan's office started to investigate. At week's end Hogan was still looking for Schlesinger, who was reported to be in South America...