Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Public Service Commissioner Benjamin Feinberg whose family collected dividends on stock held in his son-in-law's name. Purchase price, paid out of dividends: $2,100. Present worth...
...John R. Crews, Republican leader of Brooklyn, who invested $200 for stock now worth $20,000; and Frank Kenna, Queens borough boss, who harvested $2,800 in dividends from stock a friend bought on Kenna...
...Provenzano, who abruptly resigned as assistant secretary of the state senate last fall, and last week disclosed that the Genesee Monroe Racing Association had been paying him $25,000 a year. Besides, he owned $180,000 worth of Yonkers stock...
...stock in Yonkers Raceway. Last week Sprague testified that he still owns a large block of Yonkers stock and has netted $64,000 from holdings in Roosevelt Raceway in his own Nassau County. Race-Track Counsel George Morton Levy added that in 1946 Levy had bought $2,500 worth of Roosevelt stock for Sprague's daughter; this was listed in Levy's name "so that people wouldn't think Sprague owned it," and was sold for $150,000 last fall "in anticipation of these hearings...
Huntington emphasized that conservatives are skeptical about the worth of economics, "the one field in which liberals excel." Political and moral exertions, such as national security and defense, are more important to them he said...