Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortunately, since Harvard still requires no oaths, except those connected with payment of debts to the University, there is no one pattern of action that one can recommend to all the men graduating today. One of the University's greatest attractions for its students is the diversity of views that they can find and of paths of study they can follow and this diversity must naturally lead to great variety in the men that Harvard produces. If we might venture a generalization, however, about one characteristic common to most of those the University turns out, it is that they...
...Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Hart Crane, Erskine Caldwell, Kay Boyle, Katherine Anne Porter, Hamilton Basso and William Carlos Williams-all glad to work in transition's experimental laboratory-Editor Jolas never paid more than $1 a page ("Anybody who would write and not want payment was always a better friend of transition...
...Independent for running an ad which pictured him as "unscrupulous, dishonest and corrupt." When Dreier's case against the Independent came to trial, the paper was ready for him. It put on the stand a cop who testified that he had paid Dreier $50 as a down payment for his job on the force. It also came out that city workers had fixed up the mayor's house with some $9,000 worth of improvements just before its tax assessment was reduced. Dreier's secretary stepped up and offered the clincher. The mayor had told...
...with caution. The American Bankers Association asked member banks to go slow on "easy credit" terms. Warned A.B.A.: the terms should at least be strict enough to force the purchaser to pay for his item before it wears out. California's Bank of America cut its 15% down payment to 10% on radio and TV sets, stretched installments from 18-months to 24. It demanded 30% down for autos, allowed 30 months to pay. Manhattan's National City Bank was even more conservative: it left the one-third down payment unchanged, stretched payments by only three months...
Diminishing Return. In Bonham, Texas, Justice of the Peace W. F. Keeton fined a defendant on a bad-check charge, accepted in payment a check which was duly returned marked "Insufficient funds...