Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week it looked as if Louisiana, after twelve years of the Long machine, had just about paid in full. Ended was a long, bitter, five-sided primary campaign, in which Huey's brother, Governor Earl Long, wrapped the mantle of Huey around him, with some opponents saying he had no right to wear it and some saying it was no mantle. Loud were the old-fashioned charges of fraudulent registrations, theft, tyranny, dictatorship, broken with old-fashioned cries of "Turn the rascals out." All this noise indicated that the voters were out in force as they...
...Germany had 35 billion marks invested abroad. After two years of war (August 1916), she still had nearly that much, and found no trouble in getting credit abroad. Today Germany's foreign credit is practically nil. Anything she imports must be paid for in cash or barter. This difference more than offsets the fact that Germany can now trade with two countries which were her enemies in 1916 -Italy and Russia...
...Public-health activities, in connection with State health departments, were sponsored in country regions of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Oklahoma. Some of these communities had never paid much mind to medical guardians. "In Seminole County [Okla.] ... it took a midnight raid with flashlight photographs to put an end to the bootlegging of forbidden grades of milk. ... In another [county] a sanitation officer persuaded the authorities of a little city to do something about their water supply by the good old device of putting dyestuff down a suspected privy and watching it color the water of the spring whence the citizens...
...said they paid no attention whatever to the stockmarket, 23% noticed big rises and falls, 15.1% followed "general quotations fairly regularly," 11.6% followed "certain stocks...
Solemnly alleging that Neylan was representing only Herbert Fleishhacker, was working not for but against the interest of the bank, Anglo California demanded back $85,000 paid him from bank funds on Fleishhacker's orders. While it was about it, Anglo California tossed in another item of $75,000 still due on a note which Mr. Neylan has refused to pay because he thinks he has that much more fee coming...