Word: receipts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Addis Ababa the receipt by a U. S. cameraman of a jocular cablegram from his home office, "Presume Addis next; suggest you pick out shelter now," leaked out to cause virtual panic as thousands of natives grabbed their rifles and bolted pell-mell out of the Capital, thinking it was about to be bombed...
Harvard's receipt of $2,000,000 for the establishment of a graduate school of Public Administration, announced yesterday, should add considerable momentum to the gradually growing movement toward creating a place for the college man in politics...
...inexpedient and last week Missouri's new sales tax law went into effect. Promptly the State began to provide its citizens with means of paying fractional cent levies when all banks put on sale milk bottle caps inscribed with the State seal and labeled "Missouri Retailers Sales Tax Receipt." Those with blue circles were worth one mill in taxes, those with orange circles, five mills. In theory citizens paid their sales tax in advance upon purchasing these bottle tops from the banks. In practice, they took bottle tops in change from retail merchants for that part of a cent...
...receipt of the following letter from the Secretary of the Interior," President Roosevelt wrote tersely to Congress. The letter from embarrassed Harold Ickes: "I regret to report the loss of enrolled bill HR 6084 authorizing a bond issue for Ketchikan, Alaska, which was delivered to my office on May 3 by a messenger from the White House. The bill was receipted for by a messenger at my door. . . . I have caused everyone to search all papers in and on their desks. . . . I am chagrined to have to report the loss of this bill in spite of the care with which...
With the conclusion of this last flight on the West Coast I hereby resign from the Bureau of Air Commerce effective on the receipt of this wire. In order to expedite the report it is written in flight to be sent upon landing...