Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge against Doheny was that he had bribed Albert Bacon Fall, Secretary of the Interior, in 1921, with $100,000 in cash, delivered by Doheny's son in a little black bag, in return for a lease on the Elk Hills Naval oil reserve in California. Five months ago, on practically the same evidence used against Doheny, Fall was convicted of receiving a bribe (TIME, Nov. 11). Admitted by the defense in both cases was the transfer of money, the leasing of Elk Hills. For each jury to decide was the intent behind the giving and the taking...
Strongest prosecution point: Doheny sent the money to Fall under suspicious circumstances in cash...
...Association, which maintained a Washington lobby to oppose Government operation of the Government's $150,000,000 power plant, built during the War to make nitrates for gunpowder. The T. R. I. A. favored acceptance of some private bid for the plant's use. Mr. Huston collected cash, sent more than $156,000 in four years to his Washington headquarters. In 1928 he had a large hand in writing the Muscle Shoals plank in both the Republican and Democratic platforms. His association lobbied for the Muscle Shoals bid of the American Cyanamid Co., under which Union Carbide...
...according to Means, was at No. 903 16th St., a large comfortable house, rented for $1,000 per month where Means, drawing $83-33 per week as a U. S. investigator, lived with five servants, a car and chauffeur. In its backyard, Means claims, was concealed the gang's cash, sometimes $500,000, never less than $50,000. Later this money would be deposited in a bank at Washington Court House, Ohio...
...Evansville, Ind., Sebastian H. Willem. escaped lunatic, and Gertrude Shrewsbury, dishwasher in the Southeastern Hospital for the Insane, invited 300 loafers to a "bridal" party for which they paid cash...