Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closed up when Nixon was nominated for the vice presidency (a point which neither the New York Post nor Columnist Edson had noted). Smith himself was the trustee who wrote the checks. "Some of the disbursements," he said, "came to me as direct bills for payment. And some came to me as statements of expense from Senator Nixon's office. The Senator never handled any of the money himself." But sometimes Nixon was personally reimbursed by check for expenses he had incurred-and accounted...
...Poll Tax. Males under 65 pay $2 annual tax. It is not requisite for voting but such payment is evidence of residence...
...sale is made, word-of-mouth advertising helps make others. Almost every buyer of a plan gladly signs a card introducing the I.D.S. man to another friend or neighbor (doctors and professional men are the best customers, closely followed by farmers). If anybody fails to meet his second payment, I.D.S. refunds the first one and cancels the deal. I.D.S. feels "that man will just be trouble...
...Commonwealth cousins would show where a good part of the responsibility lies for the sterling area's ills. The government instructed Norman Robertson, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, to put a discussion of those policies on the conference agenda. Explained one Canadian economist: "The balance of payment deficit must be stopped, and stopped permanently, and though it may sound hardhearted, that's something those countries have to work out for themselves." Canada, he added, expects countries like India and Pakistan to have deficits ("You can't tighten a belt over a shrunken belly"). But Australia...
...when Hirsch and his friends offered their second payment of $320,000, they got a surprise: GSA refused to accept the cash. It announced, instead, that the Government needed the plant after all, and was taking it back through condemnation. And why did the Government need it? For Avco's new engine production, of course. The Air Force had suddenly discovered that altering and equipping the plant at Government expense for Avco would run into millions; it didn't like the idea that when Avco's lease ran out, the plant would revert to Hirsch, improvements...