Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government is notorious Chen Yu-jen (Eugene Chen), long the Communistically inclined stormy petrel of South China politics. As War Minister the new state has General Tsai Ting-kai, famed commander of the 19th Route Army in its deathless defense of Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Governor Li Chai-sum of Kwangsi Province was styled the "Chairman" (President) of the new Government but Chinese called him a mere front for Red Eugene Chen...
...ringing the college bell and waiting on table in the commons, Zachariah Bridgen, who entered Harvard College in 1657 at the age of 14, was given the sum of about $4 by the steward's office, on December 31, 1654, prior to his entrance as a student. This is the first record of an American student who earned part of his college expenses...
...lotteries act. The judge granted it, calling His Grace before the grimy Bow Street bar next week to answer to the Crown for his wit. Atholl had popular British sympathy last week because everyone knew he had really been trying to save for British charities some of the vast sum that annually goes across the Irish Sea to the perfectly legal Irish Free State Hospitals Sweepstakes...
...Japan," they made bold to comment that the House of Mitsui has been "a shining target for resentment against excessive capitalist profits." In Army circles satisfaction was tinged with comment that "the Mitsui should have given more!" Their gift last week was ten times as great as the sum they gave last year "for direct unemployment relief" after the assassination of Dr. Dan. To please the Army, the House of Mitsui and their competitors the House of Mitsubishi also subscribed a "loan" of 20,000,000 yen to the puppet Government of Manchukuo. Even such cooperation, swaggering Japanese officers declare...
...indorsements - a type of business which many commercial banks find un profitable. Some of the banks are controlled by Morris Plan Corp. of America but most of them are autonomous local institutions in which the parent company has a minority interest. Because 6% interest on the whole sum and an investigation fee (usually 2%) are deducted from the loan when made and because the loan is repaid in regular instalments, the borrower pays about 17% for the money that he actually uses. But that is better than the 42% of personal finance companies and a far cry from the loan...