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...Besson's troubles with the police started in 1932, when a lawyer brought suit for an unpaid bill of $200. Losing his case, Deputy Besson defiantly refused to pay, was sentenced to three months in jail. The job was to catch him. France allows her citizens a total of 31 days in jail before they can be disbarred from public office. At various times, M. Besson had served nearly three weeks behind bars for passing bad checks and attacking uniformed flunkies. Another ten days would ruin his political career...
...Opened with a Labor question on, whether His Majesty's Government intend to explain to the Government of the United States that the United Kingdom is about to re-arm with an expenditure of millions due but unpaid to the U. S. Treasury...
...Current British expenditure for Rearmament is tentavely set at $1,000,000,000 while the unpaid U.S. Treasury bill including the Dec.15 installment totals $582,803,306.83. The U.S. State department, not demanding that Britain pay up for her last war before investing in another, last week dispatched to London one more gentle reminder, these being always anaswered by affirmations that, although Britain will not pay she considers her refusal " not a repudation." Borrowing this idea a German criminal on trial in London last week refused toplead either guilty or not guilty, insisted upon pleading "I do not feel guilty...
...stock-selling plan which Bethlehem inaugurated in 1930. The company sold to various executives 221,200 shares of common stock priced at $91.60, to be paid for in installments. At the end of 1934, there were 450 shares paid up, 10,890 shares canceled. On remaining shares there were unpaid balances totaling $11,114,000. Largest unpaid balance belonged to President Grace, who contracted for 67,500 shares on which he owed $5,206,000. Mr. Buck owed $1,489,000 on 15,750 shares and Mr. Bent owed $1,503,000 on 15,750 shares. Debtors paid 5% interest...
...State is an eagle of intellect, but he has done many a job competently and quietly. Among them was the distribution of $1,000,000, willed by a Sharon, Pa. millionaire, Frank H. Buhl, to improve the lot of Belgian orphans. The fund was so well administered by an unpaid staff that it has only recently been exhausted, all the orphans having grown up. Today Mr. & Mrs. Phillips live in a commodious house on upper Massachusetts Ave., sharing a garden with their next-door neighbor, Hungary's Count Laszlo Szechenyi. There they dine the diplomats whom it is their...