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...Courtesy Repaid Long a familiar figure at Manhattan's Roxy Theatre was tattered old Mrs. Edna Morss Allin Elliot. Whenever a new picture was being shown she went to the first showing. Each time she sat in the same front-row seat, decked out in quaint, shabby costumes with leg-o'-mutton sleeves and feather boas. Ten years ago, when Assistant Manager William J. Reilly first noticed her regular attendance, he arranged to have her admitted early to watch the rehearsals of the stage show...
...instantly advanced by the Bank of England which will later be repaid from the Exchequer...
...unions to let their men treat the matter as individuals rather than as unionists, Publisher Stern got a "10% "kickback" out of 97% of the Post's mechanical employes.* They agreed to lend the Post 10% of their pay checks indefinitely, the loans to be repaid at 2% interest when, to the satisfaction of an employe committee, the paper makes money...
...great Wilsonian (he had cemented the relationship by marrying Daughter Eleanor Wilson in 1914), McAdoo came near the Democratic Presidential nominations in 1920 and 1924. Sidetracked by New York's Al Smith, McAdoo repaid that score and formed a second political alliance eight years later by helping to sidetrack Al Smith for Franklin Roosevelt at Chicago in 1932. At the same time he ran for the Senate with Hearst and Roosevelt backing, won his first big elective...
...government made loans to the farmers and these loans were to be repaid after the harvest. In order to keep the price of grain from rising and falling, the government was to buy up the grain when the prices began to fall and to sell it when prices rose. Instead of utilizing forced labor to carry out all the government's public works, he proposed to pay for this labor and levied an income tax to provide the treasury with the necessary funds...