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...meet the estimated deficit of $359,640,000 this year, I have economies totalling $106,920,000; $66,582,000 from debt redemption; and $196,830,000 from new taxation?a total of $370,332,000??? giving me an estimated surplus...
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, famed English humorist, looked back over his year's connection with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film company, commented: "They paid me $2,000 a week?$104,000???and I cannot see what they engaged me for. . . . Twice during the year they brought completed scenarios of other people's stories to me and asked me to do some dialog. Fifteen or sixteen people had tinkered with those stories. The dialog was quite adequate. All I did was touch it up here and there. . . . They were extremely nice to me, but I feel as if I have cheated them...
...from traditions and precedents, one that will fit men and women for lives of service." The great Stanford horse farm in the wooded hills of Palo Alto, 30 miles "down the peninsula" (southeast) from San Francisco, was to be its site and all the Senator's wealth?some $30.000,000???would go to endow it. Because he wished it to be open to all, with tuition free, the Senator said: "The children of California shall be my children." He asked Dr. Jordan to help him build Leland Stanford Jr. University and be its first president...
...which Professor Savage is one) of the American Academy in Rome inspect each individual. The judges' choice, traditionally a personable as well as talented young man, receives from the Academy a studio and residence on Rome's Janiculum Hill for three years?an honorarium valued at about $8,000???plus $500 in traveling expenses...
...denied a persistent report that $100,000 ransom had been paid. Xo other motive for the kidnapping was offered; no explanation of why the Post-Dispatch and Reporter Rogers were selected to reap the glory (Rogers was given a bonus of one year's salary?said to exceed $6,000???for his scoop). Opposition papers boldly hinted that the Post-Dispatch was withholding