Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...month, plus rations; his lowest subaltern, to $3.15. But many a Revolutionary private got more. The Continental States and their impoverished Congress at Philadelphia bid against each other for men, ran prices as high as $86.66 a month (in the Massachusetts and New Hampshire Militias), up to $1,000 cash bounty, 100 to 500 acres in land-bounty a man. Said General Washington, before the war and the bidding were well under way: "Never were soldiers whose pay and provision have been so abundant and ample. . . . There is some reason to dread that the enemies of New England...
...Student Council has collected $8.948.44 in pledges during registration on Friday, Saturday, and yesterday, if was announced last night, last year the Council received or $8.677.78 in cash from undergraduates, or 88 per cent of the total amount pledged...
Maurice Friedman '43, received a fifth prize of $50 for his essay submitted to the committee. The winner of the contest received $1,200 in cash and a free trip to China on the clipper...
During Registration Friday the Student Council nicked new students for a total of $1,564.50 in cash and $1,834.50 in unpaid pledges...
Four hundred and three registrants made cash donations on the spot, while 466 left signed pledges, and 93 students left their names and addresses without pledging anything. Approximately 40 students slipped by the Council table without signing anything...