Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Workers, "Umbrella Mike" Boyle is said to have earned his nickname by his method of collecting donations from electrical contractors and other citizens who sought his favors. Boss Boyle would hang his umbrella on the bar of Johnson's saloon, absent himself while the graftee plunked the agreed sum into it, then return and innocently walk off with the umbrella. In eight years, on a union salary of $35 per week, he saved $350,000. "It was with great thrift," he has explained. As early as 1915 "Umbrella Mike" was indicted for a racketeering conspiracy in restraint of trade...
Lyons turned out in the January American Mercury a dispassionate, detailed six-point analysis of how it happens that in the Soviet Union there is so much abject confessing of whatever it would do the Dictator good to have confessed. Mr. Lyons, veteran of innumerable Moscow trials, says in sum that Soviet prisoners who do not succeed in convincing the henchmen of Justice that they can be depended on to confess fairly convincingly in open court are never brought to trial at all, just taken downstairs and shot. Justice today, in Russian cases of importance, according to Mr. Lyons, does...
...this community; and on Monday, as it appeared that the flood would be the most disastrous in all our history, it has been asked that the fund quota be doubled--and to go as far beyond that as possible. In order to be able to secure this large sum, the cooperation of the members of the University is necessary...
...Garrett to $17,000,000 in 1930. Since then the estate has been fattened further. The note the widow left said: "Dear Mr. Charles S. Starr-Give you my estate and belongings which are named in my book per a/c the following amounts: Give to Henrietta G. Ferguson the sum of $10,000. . . ." Thus she gave away $62,500 to friends and servants, but omitted the residuary phrase: "All the rest I give to. . . ." Neither did she have witnesses for her note...
Another dean when consulted said, "It's all right if you don't charge anything." Directors of the bureau thought this unfair, however, considering it only just that they get their 25 cent registration fee and their nominal sum fee of 15 cents for each date given...