Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blond, square-jawed Denver lawyer became a member of the Colorado Senate. Henry Wolcott Toll had been educated at Williams College, at Harvard and University of Denver Law Schools, and there was then nothing much to distinguish him from hundreds of other young lawyers elected to state legislatures. After two years in Colorado's Senate he was thoroughly disgusted at the ignorance in which state legislators were obliged to make laws -ignorance of the laws, investigations, researches, and legislative experiments of other states. In 1925, at his own expense, Henry Wolcott Toll sent letters to all 7,500 legislators...
...next five years most of that Association was Henry Wolcott Toll. He published a paper, The Legislator, and conducted a large correspondence, all to ameliorate the magnificent isolation and indifference to each other which state legislatures had maintained since...
Gradually the work of the Legislators' Association won recognition. The American Bar Association patted it on the back. Finally, in 1930. Mr. Toll got financial aid from the Spelman Fund of New York. He moved the headquarters of his Association to Chicago, set it up in a two-room office near the University of Chicago. Today the Capitol of the U. S. is still in Washington, D. C., but so far as the states individually have any point of contact, it is Mr. Toll's office building in Chicago. There now are the headquarters of 17 organizations serving...
Emerging briefly from retirement Bob Brookings stole the show in the first day of the Handicap Meet at the Stadium and upheld the honor of the Yard proctors by winning his heat of the 100-meter dash with ridiculous ease. In the 200-meter dash, however, time took its toll of the veteran and he was smothered by the field...
...Internal Revenue Bureau in Washington disclosed that President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University had agreed to pay $32,962 for deficiencies in his 1932 income tax statement, which claimed losses of $194,412 in sales of Kreuger & Toll stock. When newshawks asked him if he would give further information about the error, the 79-year-old taxpayer snapped a decisive...