Word: fee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Racketeer. The essential step in the working of an industrial racket is the formation of an association which all the local operators in the industry are invited to join. Thus a dry cleaner might find himself invited to join a local dry cleaning association, paying this association an initiation fee and annual dues. Should he refuse to join, his house might be bombed, his place of business wrecked, his person assaulted, his life taken. Minor forms of pressure would be the hurling of stench bombs, or the introduction of acids or explosives into his cleaning fluids. Should the dry cleaner...
...determining his fee, a high-grade physician considers his patient and the circumstances of the case. So, too, does the high-grade hangman...
...president of the New York Academy of Medicine and hence a quasi-national personage, Dr. John Augustus Hartwell last week assumed boldness and denounced the profession's chronic evil- fee-splitting. The practice of medicine has become so complex that the general practitioner must usually call in a specialist for many services which formerly he did himself. The patient pays two fees, usually (in Manhattan and other large communities) $10 to the family doctor, $35 to the specialist. And usually the specialist secretly rebates a few dollars to the small doctor who called him into consultation. Fee-splitting...
Furthermore, the Standard Oil Co. of California is by far the largest potential producer and owns the greatest known oil reserve. Most of these lands are owned in fee (no.royalties...
Eight months' full membership in the Y. M. C. A. at 316 Huntington Avenue, Boston, is provided to each Freshman, the fee of $11 per man being paid by the Dental School administration. The class meets twice a week throughout the academic year, on Wednesday and Saturday at 12:20 o'clock. Such membership entitles each man to all the privileges of the Y. M. C. A., including the use of the gymnasium, swimming pool, handball and tennis courts, club rooms, lounge, and library, at any time. No requirements are attached to these memberships, other than the two periods...