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Dates: during 1940-1940
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According to investigators, money came & came. Upwards of $200,000 in "fellowship certificates" to Peace Haven were sold at $100 apiece. No contribution was despised, no matter how minute. For those who could not plunk down $100, a deferred-payment plan was provided: $10 down, installments of 5?. Incidental "love offerings" of $5 to $6 were gratefully received. Boys & girls belonged to "Cosmic Network, Inc.," contributed 1? stamps. Into "Secret Givers, Inc." (for men only; emblem: a stork carrying a baby) members paid from 50? to $1 a month...
...trail. It began, they said, in the Gran Hotel Paris, where police seized documents belonging to the ring's La Paz agents. There they found a check for $7,500 in Diez's favor, a slip of paper reading: "Dear Ed: Here goes the first payment; others follow...
Aside from willingness to contribute, prime requisite for F. o. B. membership is to be "a fellow being with a bellow feeling" to enjoy windy punning and complex ritual. Payment of one peso initiation fee makes the joiner a Whiff (all non-joiners are Snuffs, ritualistically defined as "infinitely worse than a cross-eyed toad with athlete's foot"). A Whiff becomes a Puff when he pays his first month's levy. A Puff becomes a Gust when, after his entry, 1,000 planes have been shot down and he has paid in ten pesos. When...
...their value; 4) churches and chapels will be insured free, the Treasury paying all premiums. In addition, the War Damage Bill provides that any Briton may voluntarily insure under the scheme one motorcar worth up to $2,000 and additional personal property worth up to $6,000 upon payment of a premium...
From present indications, these special schools will probably not be large enough or numerous enough to make this training more than a "token payment...