Word: repaying
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...supposed to repay the county, Bob Sweitzer appeared in the Board room with neither the $414,129, nor the $335,000, nor anything. He asked for and received an extension until 10:30 o'clock next morning. At that hour next day, seven Board members called at Sweitzer's office for the money. Sweitzer explained that since some of it was "coming from San Francisco," he wanted until 4 p. m. to make payment. Back in the Board room at 4:30, Bob Sweitzer asked for a further adjournment until 10:30 the following morning...
...only applicants smart enough to step forward with a plan embracing every project to be undertaken in their state, the La Follettes got $100,000,000 for Wisconsin. Strings: the State must raise another $105,000,000 needed for its 140-odd projects, must arrange to repay $30,000,000 of the Federal Government's advance...
...repay Harvard for the loan of her valuable hot dogs, Mr. Roosevelt might well lend University Hall Jim Farley for a couple of weeks. Fresh from national triumphs, it should be a small job for him to bring our troublesome commuters back into the fold where they will no longer tickle official digestions...
...semicircular little courtroom was crowded with lawyers, Senators, bigwigs, newshawks, as the Supreme Court on four successive days listened to arguments and asked questions about the right of Congress to invalidate "gold clauses" in public and private securities. For years the U. S. Government and most corporations promised to repay lenders their principal and interest "in gold coin of the present standard of weight and fineness." On June 5, 1933 Congress, having authorized the President to suspend the gold standard, forbade the writing of any more gold clauses, declared in effect that all those previously written were legally...
...useless to point out that many of the men elected by them have court convictions to their credit, powerful machines to repay for their services, and no interest in the public office except as a means of furthering their own personal ambition and greed. Confident that they have discharged their obligations as citizens these unimportant details have little interest to the electorate. The will of the people has been emphatically expressed and let no man question the wisdom of its decisions. That indeed is the ideal of the democratic state and adds zest to the "great game of politics...