Word: summing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facts of the case center around the state of Ames, a ficitious forty-ninth state, where courts are not bound by the law of any particular state. In this state, Traynor was elected Treasurer of the city of Amesburgh. The plaintiff Surety Company executed a bond in the sum of $200,00 to the city to cover defalcations of Traynor and of the man whom he should appoint deputy treasurer. Traynor appointed Depue to be deputy treasurer. The defendant Surety Company executed a bond to the city to cover any defalcations of Depute...
...have been fortunate to know their richness. The "Titian" was once owned by Efrem Zimbalist. The "Viola Mac Donald" was born in 1701. "La Belle Blondine," the cello that was heard in Spain, was bundled off in silks and felts to the U. S. in return for a fabulous sum of money. The fourth, a "Red" Stradivari, was just recently released from a physician's care; its tone wanted strengthening. For these four fiddles Mr. Warburg paid $200,000. It is not for antiquity this sum has been paid. It is for workmanship. After 200 years, they are still...
...sum up the other Coolidge liabilities, there is the inherent feebleness of the man himself, the admitted fact that he is largely a combination of machine support, party propaganda and accident. There is the further fact that Old Guard leaders cordially dislike him personally and resent the accident that projected him into the White House and enabled him to be nominated in 1924. But for the death of Mr. Harding no one would ever have seriously suggested Mr. Coolidge for the Presidency. The fact is he was so negligible a quantity that he might easily have failed for renomination...
...with $50,000 to invest select ten young men and women from families known to be prolific, and let him set them up as five married couples in Ontario, on the promise that if any couple wins the prize they will turn it over to their benefactor. The sum of $50,000 would easily cover the support of these people, and a doctor and nurse to advise and care i them in a scientific way. Let it be announced that this scientific attempt to win the prize was being made, and other contestants would soon drop...
...York Negro, known to his compeers as the Jamaica Kid, climbed stiffly into a prize-ring in Waterbury, Conn., and assumed an upright position before Jack Delaney, world's light heavyweight champion. He had been paid a certain sum of money to get into that ring so that Delaney could have something to hit. To be sure, the Jamaica Kid had the option to hit back if he were able, but he knew after the second round that he would not be able long. An expression of physical terror, resigned and ghastly, spread over his black face. Delaney...