Word: amount
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Reports were then read and those of the retiring treasurer showed the total receipts of the past year to be $3,748.94; balance on hand, $2,705,75. This amount was derived from the spring games a year ago. A motion was made that $2,000 of the amount be placed with a trust company. This was lost. A motion was then carried that the money be distributed among the colleges, but only those colleges which sent competitors to the games a year ago to receive a share. An amendment by Mr. Lee that the division be on a basis...
tings. Through false representations he has already induced several men to sign their names in "an address book" which later has taken the form of a legal contract binding the signer to the amount of $50.00. The paper is tampered with after it is signed by the would-be purchaser...
...looks now as if Harvard were, after all, going to get something out of the Fayerweather will case. At the court on Wednesday the three executors drew up a statement in which they relinquished all their claims as residuary legatees. As this claim amounted to somewhere between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000, their action is of considerable importance to those to whom the money will now go. The executors state that they give the property in trust to various colleges mentioned in Mr. Fayerweather's will. Harvard was not mentioned in the will, but in this apportionment...
...forced down. The silver agitation is purely an inflation movement and must be followed by all the consequences of inflation. The possibilities of maintaining gold and silver on a par with each other depends not upon the quantity of silver which could be put into circulation, but upon the amount of gold in the government treasury. Professor Taussig feels sure that the amount is not sufficient to hold out very long...
...imperative in our Senate because: a. The minority is trying to kill measures by delay and not by argument. 1. Using obstructive proceedings; Cong. Rec. 51st Cong., 2nd Sess., 1646 et ad lib.; and 2. Expressly approving of obstruction; Cong. Rec. 51st Cong. 2nd Sess., p, 1881. b. The amount of work to be done by the Senate is large and increasing...