Word: receipt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affirmed, however, that upon receipt of President Truman's proclamation a religious service would be held at a time to be announced some time today, and that classes would be dismissed during the time of the service. Official Harvard observance of the end of the European war would be short and solemn, it was indicated...
...Oregon Property Owners' Protective League, Inc.," Ritchie and a friend named A. E. McCroskey dropped in to help. The name was soon changed to Japanese Exclusion League. Said Organizer Ritchie, "Oregon Property Owners' Protective League, Inc. is a hell of a long name to sign on a receipt." The League charged $10 initiation fees, $1 a month dues. Soon it had hundreds of paying members...
Blood Suckers. In Washington, D.C., postal inspectors discovered that some mailbox thieves now steal checks, hurry to a blood bank, give a pint, get a receipt made out to the name of the check, cash their loot by presenting a patriotic identification...
...Land Commissioner on Samoa, Henry Clay Ide, that because his daughter Anne was born on Christmas, she never got any birthday presents. Stevenson formally deeded his birthday (Nov. 13) to the child, stipulated that she celebrate the occasion "by the sporting of fine raiment, eating of rich meats and receipt of gifts, compliments and copies of verse . . .", or forfeit,the anniversary rights to the President...
...foremost magazine-cover and hat model, had her face plastered on tens of thousands of cigaret-advertising billboards. At $50 an hour, the highest modeling fee ever paid, she sometimes made more than $1,000 a week. Her sex appeal was attested by such demonstrations as the receipt from various male admirers one Christmas of no less than 44 bottles of her favorite, $40-an-oz. perfume. Hollywood was the almost inevitable next step. She took it-and flopped...