Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guild, No. 103 Lafayette St., Manhattan, reasoning that liquor drinking also occurs in homes at the bottom of the income scale, and that poor people might also prefer to imbibe in stylish and fashionable surroundings, offered such drinkers a collapsible bar with a real brass rail for the sum...
...actual sum that I am trying to raise to turn over to the life insurance company is $17,907. However, the Class must take into consideration that I have assumed these payments over a ten year period in order that the maximum possible number of the Class should be able to contribute through some plan within their means. The experience of previous classes proves that the raising of any such sum as $17,907 in one year is out of all proportion to the ability of the Class to make such contributions...
...members of the senior class are expected to contribute $40 a head this year (the two alternative plans come to much the same thing) toward a $50,000 fund for the twenty-fifth year reunion. Presumably the total sum is reasonable, but the senior class would certainly be grateful for some explanation a bit more explicit than that to collect it is the treasurer's "duty...
...giving to the Harvard Fund, the Council's Chairman is particularly anxious to emphasize the fact that a larger number of contributors is wanted rather than a large amount. The Fund never asks for a definite sum and from members of the Senior Class and from Classes recently graduated from College it expects only the most nominal gifts from a dollar up. The main thing is that a man should give something and begin now a habit in which he will take increasing pride as the years...
...stock margin account, under another name, with the Manhattan brokerage firm of Blyth & Bonner. He was $19.381 short. From Fred H. Haggerson, head of Union Carbide, he urgently solicited $22,000 on the plea that it was necessary to keep his Muscle Shoals lobby alive. He put this sum into his stock margin account. In June he obtained from Union Carbide another "contribution" of $14,100 which also went to Blyth & Bonner, as margin for the purchase of $46,000 worth of stocks, from which he secured a profit of $526. Not until two months after he received Union Carbide...