Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each. Twelve trustees would run the Association without pay. At least 103 "officers" for the Association would be chosen by lot, their "salaries" to run up to $50,000 a year. Practically, these lucky "officers" would have nothing to do but collect their "salaries" in a lump sum. Of the Association funds, 44% would go for relief, 44% for "salaries," 12% for operating expenses...
Like many another Frenchman, the Evreux judge deplores his Government's welching, winces at the scorn of itinerant Moe Buchsbaums. Instead of ordering the prisoner jailed he snapped, "I will accept, Monsieur Buchsbaum, a photostatic copy of a check proving that you have paid the sum of 100 francs to the American Treasury for the account of France...
Riga telegraphed Paris, Paris cabled the U. S. and last week every big paper in the land carried the news that Andrew William Mellon had purchased Sanzio Raphael's Madonna of the House of Alba from the Soviet Government for the fabulous sum...
...insurance money left by the deceased. Because insurance is among the last assets a man forfeits, the tombstone makers were serene long after hard times had pinched other manufacturers. In 1929 they sold $100,000,000 of memorials. By 1932 their gross had slipped to a third of that sum. but this year they expect to take in $60,000,000.* Ideal tombstone customer was the late Steelmaster Judge Elbert Henry Gary who built no less than 42 crypts and declared: "I believe every man should consider Death as carefully as he would consider a business proposition...
...Field Post Directory, a document for which the British were prepared to pay "a fabulous sum...