Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Williamsport, Pa., on a platform graced also by the potent Emma Guffey Miller, sister and mentor of U. S. Senator Joseph Guffey, the mayor knowingly inquired: 1) whether Governor Earle had borrowed $30,000 from Little Matt; 2) how many millions of dollars worth of State contracts had been awarded to Contractor McCloskey; and 3) how many McCloskey men the State had appointed to inspect McCloskey jobs. From Harrisburg hapless Debtor Earle replied: "Matthew H. McCloskey has been one of my personal friends. ... As my friend, he made several loans to me during the years 1935 and 1936, prior...
...confirmed that Contractor McCloskey had counseled both the State and the PWA on the mechanics of allotting more than twenty million Federal dollars to Pennsylvania's $65,000.000 public-works program, and it was established that Little Matt so far has bid low on about $13,000,000 worth of those contracts. From the Governor's side of the gutter, Chairman Kelly demanded and obtained a WPA investigation of his charges that Boss Guffey bosses State WPA voters. Replied Senator Guffey, "I have nothing to do with WPA. The way Jack Kelly is squealing he must have...
...famous Dutch-boy bob, had sued for an accounting of the great fortune he was sure he had amassed. From the San Fernando Valley mansion that Jackie's talents paid for, came the hurt and indignant cry of an outraged mother, the shrewd two-cents' worth of a storybook stepfather...
...winter vacation, Sophomore Di Maggio puffed with pride, became a little businessman, played host to admirers in his café on Fisherman's Wharf. When the time came round to sign a contract for his junior year, Little Businessman Di Maggio refused $25,000. He thought he was worth $40,000-not a cent less. Remembering well that Yankee Babe Ruth once got $80,000 a year from Owner Jacob Ruppert, Di Maggio held out all through the spring training season...
...speedily confirmed as Lawyer Arthur Ballantine. trustee for an investment trust named Continental Securities Corp. now in a 776 reorganization, charged through his counsel that a group of unnamed Canadians had bought a controlling interest in the trust last October for approximately $50,000 when its portfolio held securities worth some $3,300.000, and that Continental has since been looted so thoroughly that only $20,000 in marketable securities are left. In the process Continental acquired control of an investment trust named Reynolds Investing Co., which is now being investigated by SEC. Brokerage transactions for both were handled...