Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swedish swindler's principal U. S. sinkhole. According to Kreuger's handmade balance sheets, Match was a $200,000,000 concern with world-wide properties. Discovering only $9,871 in cash, the receivers searched the wide world for other Match assets. It disputed the claims of Kreuger & Toll. It accused the German Government of "flagrant discrimination" between Swedish and U. S. creditors under the famed "Kreuger Loan," biggest single Match asset. And by last week Irving Trust had salvaged $8,000,000. For the benefit of Match creditors it recommended a "first dividend of approximately...
Five formal dinners and five formal receptions are the toll of ceremonial entertainment which custom and etiquet demand of a President. Last week President Roosevelt began his seasonal duty, to end only with Lent. The new White House china was not yet ready, but the old White House wine glasses were polished up and brought out for the first time since before Prohibition. Two kinds of light domestic wine were served. The occasion was the Cabinet Dinner but this year it became the Cabinet & Alphabet dinner and the State Department's division of protocol made social history by deciding...
...haberdashery, and by their means he induced Alabama to favor him with the first re-election given any of its Governors in 33 years. He did it by promising a referendum on State Repeal, promising tax exemption on homesteads up to $3,500 value, promising to make the state toll bridges free, promising to reduce the cost of automobile licenses, promising $3,500,000 to keep the schools open, promising that the State would bear its share of relief ($24,000,000 a year), and promising not to impose a sales tax to pay for all he promised...
Colonel Porter, here to address a luncheon club meeting, scoffed at predictions that the next war will take an incalculable toll of lives...
...Last week the charred Ward Liner, still stuck on the beach off Asbury Park. N.J., added another life to its toll of 134 when the assistant wrecking master of the salvage crew fell to his death down an open hatchway...