Word: payments
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Memphis ; five times to the Supreme Court at Jackson, Nashville and Knoxville. I was rammed in every jail in Shelby County. Nevertheless, my daily salutation to my opponents was: "Good morning, boys. You haven't got me yet." The tax collectors were finally glad to accept full payment in "dirt." . . . We gave the City 200 acres of ditches, gullies and ravines-most of which area was inaccessible on account of three diagonal railroad rights of way, cuts, fills and bridges...
...Bolton, who has three homes, three sons, many millions, last week declined with thanks the usual $10,000 payment to Congressional widows...
When Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera was put on a permanent basis in 1892, the Metropolitan Opera House was bought for $1,425,000 by 35 members of New York's swankest families. From them the Opera Company leased the building to produce its operas in. In payment for this lease the Company allowed its 35 landlords to occupy the 35 first-tier boxes of the Opera House (the "Diamond Horseshoe") at an annual assessment that reached a high last year...
...liked the look of the business and had a little money to invest. Soon the Sunday school chums were partners. Rank art amateurs both-but both good salesmen-they persuaded Widow Bishop and Edith Nixon to sell out to them for a mere $175,000. Geery made the down payment of $10,000, became secretary-treasurer. Logan paid nothing, became president. Most of the remaining experts left...
...fine new Diesel tanker, the 10,044-ton Skandinavia, made fast to a New York dock. Built in Germany for Texas Corp. as part payment for pre-war U. S. crude oil, she had reached and crossed the blockaded Atlantic without adventure...