Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...becomes clear that the responsibility of supplying the University with its most urgent athletic need rests with the alumni, and with whoever else may be in a position to contribute toward its construction. Until the sum of $300,000 is subscribed to meet the complete cost, actual work cannot start. The element of time does not enter alone into the question The conditions of the original gift of $250,000 which gave impetus to the plans stipulated that construction be begun by February 1929, and be complete by February, 1930. Failure to meet the first of these conditions will mean...
Last week, the oldest Italian daily newspaper in New York, Il Progresso Italo-Americano (founded 1880), was sold to Generose Pope, president of the Colonial Sand and Stone Co., for $2,053,000-about twice the sum which Paul Block recently paid for the Brooklyn Standard Union...
During his more than ten years' tenure of office Treasurer Carnes prospered, became Realtor Carnes, Millionaire Carnes, Altruist Carnes. The treasurer dabbled in real estate, owned in Atlanta at the end of a decade personal and real estate to the sum of $3,357,193.71. When a church needed $13,000, the altruist gave it; when a ministerial student needed funds to complete his education, the altruist supplied them. An impressive home, four automobiles, educated sons added to the prestige of Treasurer Carnes...
...Ungerleider, 43, like many young Hungarian Jews who migrated to the U. S. before the War, went first into the liquor business here, at Wheeling, W. Va., and Bridgeport, Ohio. In 1920 he organized his brokerage and investment banking firm at Cleveland. Last week he sold for a nominal sum his seat on the New York Stock Exchange to Emil Jay Roth of Cleveland, his nephew. Tyro member Roth was 21 last July 4, and is the youngest member ever admitted to the New York exchange...
...Luke Lea, Tennessee hero and publisher of the Nashville Tennessean and three other southern newspapers* arranged a contract with the Howell family to purchase control of the Atlanta Constitution for $1,050,000 (in stock) plus an additional sum based on the 1927 earnings of the Constitution. A disagreement arose over the auditing of the earnings. Col. Lea and his associate bankers, Rogers, Caldwell, sued the Howell family to compel a sale for an additional $54,000. Last week both sides agreed to drop the suit...