Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kerensky quotes a Latvian citizen, M. Vladimir Brunowsky, who has deposed that on May 10, 1923, in Moscow, he was approached by Comrade Unschlicht, a responsible official of the G. P. U. or Secret Police, and offered a round sum to pose as a spy employed by Great Britain and Norway. He was assured that, after being publicly tried, convicted and sentenced to death, he would be secretly set free. Meanwhile the Soviet State would have proved that it was menaced by Capitalist Spies...
Last week the deal was closed. New York Central received $41,000,000 cash, a vast and potent sum. The others set about creating a new company to hold Mohawk Valley, New York State Railways and Empire Power...
...Mellon is popularly (but inaccurately) supposed to manipulate. Senator Glass observed that Federal Reserve loans for speculative purposes had risen from some $800,000,000 in 1921 to some $5,000,000,000 in 1928. This was apparently so, though really the Federal Reserve Banks did not loan that sum directly to speculators, nor all of it. Member banks did the loaning. Much of the money belonged to their depositors; the rest they secured from their Federal Reserve District Banks by re-discounting speculative notes. Astute speculators predict calmly that "brokers' loans" will hit ten billions before so very...
Margaret Anglin, 52, as a lady of wit and leisure, indulged herself and the audience with such wisecracks as "Her teeth are like the Ten Commandments-all of them broken." For once, an all star company seemed as good as the sum of its parts and the play creaked seldom as it rolled rapidly across the stage. Among the stars were: Frances Starr, 42, Cecilia Loftus, 51, Jacob Ben-Ami, 38, Rollo Peters, 45, Helen Gahagan, 27, Georgette Cohan...
This total includes the $50,000 contingent gift of E. S. Harkness of New York, payable when the contributions outside of Boston and environs total that secured through the efforts of the Granter Boston committee at the time the offer was made. In order to collect this money the sum of $44.946 must be raised...